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Pulp Vietnam: War & Gender in Cold War Mens Adventure Mags-Greg Daddis-comic-w
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Military, War, and Society in Modern American History Ser.
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Era
- 60s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Illustrated
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781108737302
- Book Title
- Pulp Vietnam : War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Psychology, History
- Topic
- General, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- Xii, 347 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1108737307
ISBN-13
9781108737302
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10057255920
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pulp Vietnam : War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines
Number of Pages
Xii, 347 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, United States / General
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Psychology, History
Book Series
Military, War, and Society in Modern American History Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2020-029459
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
'In Pulp Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis brilliantly explores the strange, gaudy, and wildly misleading cultural baggage innumerable American soldiers carried through the jungles and rice paddies of the Vietnam War. Steeped in the imagery of pulp magazines during the 1950s and early 1960s, thousands of young men were encouraged to conflate hypermasculine heroism with the prospect of sexual conquest and sexual reward. In clear, measured, meticulously composed sentences, Daddis levers open a new and important window on the American war in Vietnam, a window through which the reader may glimpse the psychological origins of debacle, disappointment, betrayed expectations, cartoonish fantasies, wartime travesties, and postwar nightmares.' Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried, '... Daddis clearly makes the case for the uncomfortable impact of these peculiar magazines and the need for further study. How did these popular magazines shape the ways in which soldiers of an integrated army understood one another? Did the combination of whiteness and violence enflame the racial tensions soldiers brought with them to Vietnam? Daddis's study opens up a host of possibilities for further inquiry ...' Nicholas Utzig, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 'Hitherto overlooked among 'the things they carried' in Vietnam were thousands of pulp magazines. Daddis scrupulously dissects the delusions of supremacy - sexual, racial, and martial - comic books fueled, with disastrous results for both American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians. A richly illustrated, coruscating exposé of toxic masculinity at its most lethal.' Susan L. Carruthers, author of The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace, 'This brilliantly analyzed history dismantles masculine archetypes portrayed by media during the Vietnam War. Daddis explores the ways fantasy images of war have been perpetuated throughout history and have given young men unrealistic, warped views on masculinity.' Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Co-Directors of The Vietnam War, 'In Cold War men's adventure magazines, all the men were brawny, virile, and victorious, and all the women were beautiful, buxom, and willing. In an insightful blend of military, gender, and cultural history, Pulp Vietnam reveals the dangerous ways these fantasies collided in a war that failed to measure up to GIs' expectations.' Kara Dixon Vuic, author of The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines, 'Pulp Vietnam is a wonderful contribution to the literature on Cold War culture, the Vietnam War, and American gender and sexuality.' Amy J. Rutenberg, H-Net Reviews, 'A disturbing yet vital study that renders transparent the connection between pop culture and 'martial masculinity' during the Vietnam War. American GIs were woefully misled by these 'macho pulps' that helped plant toxic ideals of manhood, and the Vietnamese (friend or foe, and particularly women) would pay for this dangerous melding of war and sex.' Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, author of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Dewey Decimal
155.3/32097309046
Table Of Content
Introduction. Warrior heroes and sexual conquerors; 1. Macho pulp and the American cold war man; 2. My father's war: the allure of World War II and Korea; 3. The imagined 'savage' woman; 4. The Vietnamese reality; 5. War and sexual violence come to Vietnam; Conclusion. Male veterans remember their war.
Synopsis
Pulp Vietnam argues that Cold War-era men's adventure magazines crafted a particular version of martial masculinity that shaped GIs' expectations and perceptions of war in Vietnam by idealizing wartime heroism and the sexual conquest of women., In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pulps' - boasting titles like Man's Conquest, Battle Cry, and Adventure Life - portrayed men courageously defeating their enemies in battle, while women were reduced to sexual objects, either trivialized as erotic trophies or depicted as sexualized villains using their bodies to prey on unsuspecting, innocent men. The result was the crafting and dissemination of a particular version of martial masculinity that helped establish GIs' expectations and perceptions of war in Vietnam. By examining the role that popular culture can play in normalizing wartime sexual violence and challenging readers to consider how American society should move beyond pulp conceptions of 'normal' male behavior, Daddis convincingly argues that how we construct popular tales of masculinity matters in both peace and war.
LC Classification Number
BF692.5.D33 2020
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