Represented in the margins: images of African American soldiers in Vietnam War combat films
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The Vietnam War films misinterpret or stereotype African Americans and present significant insights into the experiences of African American in Vietnam. The examination of the images of African American soldiers in the Hollywood Vietnam films conserves their often-overlooked characters in the margins of the Vietnam experience.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 2001
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Differences: the X-Files, race and the white norm
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The differences between the abduction experiences of M ulder and Scully demonstrated that the sexual differences are fundamental to the policing of contact between the white subject and the alien. An account of the X-Files using a generic science fiction metaphor of alien colonization to evoke the fear of difference is given.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 2001
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Visible fandom: reading the X-Files through X-Philes
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A big gap between the foreigners and the local Americans exists that is taking its toll in the American Politics. However, X-Files is argued to bridge this ongoing gap by its messages of harnessing aliens (foreigners) into their world thus signifying the belief of secularism in Americans.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 2001
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