... forming a context that everyone can understand. It is also very dangerous because it is easy to misinterpret. Andrew Martin explores 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 ... about US intervention in Vietnam are structured around this confrontation between "desire" and "history." The difficulty, however, is that, as James William Gibson notes, "Unlike previous American experiences of war, there was no popular cultural archetype to account for succ...

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