... this occurrrence in his book, Reciption of War: Vietnam in American Culture: "Hollywood declined to get involved with the Vietnam War, precisely because there appeared to be no way of approaching the subject without automatically alienating large numbers of potential viewers.""2 Hollywood and the Vietnam War, the most controversial issue of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Vietnam War, only began to be seriously examined ... whole, had difficulty adjusting to the grim legacy of a lost and troubling war. During the conflict, Hollywood produced only a single film dealing with Vietnam--John ...

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