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ResourcesSelected ResourcesThe following list represents some interesting and unique items I have found over the years. This is not an extensive listing, rather something for out-of-the-way items that might be helpful understanding certain aspects of conflict, trauma, and cultural perspectives. Please respond with constructive reviews, experiences of use, and other helpful perspectives.Film:An Occurance at Owl Creek Not Rated. Dir: Robert Enrico. B&W, 28 min., 1962.Film based on short story by Ambrose Bierce (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891) of the same title, showing the perception of death by a Civil War soldier. The Basket (Der Korb). Rated PG. Color, 1999, MGM. 104 min. Basketball, opera, prejudice in Pacific North-West America towards Germans and their orphans during World War I. Behind the Lines, Rated-R, Rafford Films, Ltd., 1997. Showing treatment for WWI English soldiers; arguably the best English poets of WWI, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are treated for emotional problems at the same hospital; emotional treatment for "shell shock," "war neurosis," which today is referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Breaker Morant, Rated PG, 1980. Courtroom drama of 3 Australian soldiers accused of executing prisoners during the Boer War. Control Room, Not rated. 2003. Documentary about Al-Jazeera's coverage of U.S.-led Iraq war. Far From Vietnam, Rated ?. Dir: Chris Marker. USA. Color, 115 min., 1967. Chris Marker, one of seven directors. NY Film Distribution. The Fog of War, 11 Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Rated PG. 2004. Documentary, Dir. Errol Morris. Gallipoli, Rated PG. 1981. Australians fighting in Turkey during World War I. The GroundTruth: The Human Cost of War (working title), also known as, The Ground Truth, Dir: Patricia Foulkrod, rated R for disturbing violent content and language, 72 min., 2005. Let There Be Light, Dir: John Huston, black and white, 58 min., 1945, released by US Army 1985. Showing the treatment of US Army soldiers at US Army hospital for "shell-shock." Intended to show the American employers our soldiers could be productive workers. Held from distribution by US Army for fear the film would send the wrong message; that American soldiers were weak and not able to withstand the rigors of combat The Lost Battalion Not rated. 2002. Made for TV movie. Dir. Russell Mulcahy. WW I, US Army Major C. W. Whittlesey commands a composite infantry battalion of 77th Division of the New York National Guard citizen-soldiers. For five days, against overwhelming odds, Major Whittlesey refuses to surrender to German forces. For his actions, Major Whittlesey was awarded the Medal of Honor. (Note: Major Whittlesey committed suicide shortly after the war.) Night and Fog, Not Rated. Dir: Alain Resnois. Janus Films, French w/English subtitles. Color, B&W, 31 min., 1955. Documentary shows graphic images of German concentration camp from WWII. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception. Dir: Danny Schechter, color, 98 min, 2004 Books:Bass, Thomas A., Vietnamerica, the War Comes Home, (New York: Soho Press, 1996). Bates, Milton J., The Wars We took to Vietnam, Cultural Conflict and Storytelling., Berkeley: University of California, 1996. Brende, Joel Osler, M.D., Erwin Randolph Parson, Ph.D., Vietnam Veterans, the Road to Recovery, New York: New American Library, 1986. Clark Richard, . Against all Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, (New York: Soho Press, 1996). Clark, Thelka, Children in Exile, the Story of a Cross-Cultural Family, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1998. Schechter, Danny, EMBEDDED: Weapons of Mass Deception, Prometheus Books, 2003. Frankl, Viktor, Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. Gibran, Khalil, The Prophet, New York: Knopf, 1923. Grossman, Dave, . On Killing, the Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, New York: Back Bay Books, 1996. Hanh, Thich Nhat, Peace is Every Step: the Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life, New York: Bantam Books, 1991. Hedges, Chris, War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, New York: Anchor Books, 2002. Holmes, Richard, Acts of War, the Behavior of Men in Battle, New York: Free Press, 1985. Jones Griffiths, Philip, Agent Orange, "Collateral Damage" in Viet Nam, London: Trolley, 2003. ____, Vietnam, Inc., New York: Phaidon, 2001. Karlson, Eric, Fall to Grace, A True Story of Sex, Drugs, Vietnam and Enlightenment, Boulder: Mariposa Press, 1999. Keen, Sam, Faces of the Enemy, Reflections of the Hostile Imagination, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986. Hostility (Psychology), War (psychological aspects), Propaganda - Psychological aspects, Projection (Psychology), Paranoia. A good illustration of war and propaganda art. Ketchum, Richard M, Will Rogers, the Man and His Times, New York: Touchstone Book, 1973. Especially about Will's perspectives on WWI and politics. Kroll, Berry M., Teaching Hearts and Minds, College Students Reflect on the Vietnam War in Literature, Illinois: Southern Illinois University, 1992. McKelvey, Robert S., The Dust of Life, America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Miller, Alice, For Your Own Good, Hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence, 3rd Ed, New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1990. Nicosia, Gerald, Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veteran's Movement, New York: Crown Publishers, 2001. Page, Tim, Horst Fass, Requiem, by the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina, New York: Random House, 1997. Peck-Barnes, Shirley, The War Cradle, Vietnam's Children of War, Operation Babylift - the Untold Story, Denver: Vintage Pressworks, 2000. Pham, Andrew X, Catfish and Mandala, A Two-Wheeled Journey Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1999. Roy, Arundhati, War Talk, Cambridge: South End Press, 2003. Schnookler, Andrew Bard, Out of Weakness, Healing the Wounds that Drive Us to War, New York: Bantam, 1988. Sontag, Susan, Regarding the Pain of Others, New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2003. Taylor, Sandra C., Vietnamese Women at War, Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution, Kansas: University Press, 1999. Williams, Jean R, Children of the Mist, Agent Orange-Future Generations,2nd Ed, (New York: Soho Press, 1996). ____, Harvest of Tears, Vietnam's Hidden Legacy,, Australia: Homecoming Publications, 186 Coes Creek Rd., Nambour, Queensland, 4560, 2000. ____, The Devil's Rainbow, Conscripts, Chemicals, Catastrophe,2nd Ed, 1999. Copies available from the Sunshine Coast Vietnam Veterans Association, PO Box 5557, Business Center Maroochydore, Qld., 4558. ____, Cry in the Wilderness, Guinea Pigs of Vietnam,3rd Ed, Australia: Homecoming Publications, 186 Coes Creek Rd., Nambour, Queensland, 4560, 1995. Links to articles about Ted: "http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=&no=253081&rel_no=1&isPrint" "http://www.vir.com.vn/Client/TimeOut/index.asp?url=content.asp&doc=7080" "http://www.vir.com.vn/Client/TimeOut/index.asp?url=content.asp&doc=7553" |
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