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The Vietnam War on prime time television: Focus group aided rhetorical criticism of American myths in "Tour of Duty" and "China Beach".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Vietnam War on prime time television: Focus group aided rhetorical criticism of American myths in "Tour of Duty" and "China Beach"./
Author:	Marshall, Scott Wayne.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	297 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-08, Section: A, page: 2781.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-08A.
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9401312

The Vietnam War on prime time television: Focus group aided rhetorical criticism of American myths in "Tour of Duty" and "China Beach".
Marshall, Scott Wayne.

The Vietnam War on prime time television: Focus group aided rhetorical criticism of American myths in "Tour of Duty" and "China Beach". - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 297 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-08, Section: A, page: 2781.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1993.

Focus groups interviews and rhetorical-mythic criticism were combined to examine the construction of the Vietnam war on the prime time television series Tour of Duty and China Beach via research questions concerning the American myth of the Global Police Officer and American gender myths. The critical analysis was a comparison of main male characters' experiences in each series' narrative to Campbell's and Jewett's male hero cycles and main females characters' experiences to Lichtman's and Pearson and Pope's female hero cycles in the greater context of the research questions. The focus groups were composed of two groups each of male and female Vietnam war veterans and were organized around their perceptions of the series and of the Global Police Officer and gender myths.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

The Vietnam War on prime time television: Focus group aided rhetorical criticism of American myths in "Tour of Duty" and "China Beach".
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520 $a Main findings were that in Tour of Duty, tensions regarding the war were resolved through use of a pattern of deep structures similar to Jewett's American monomyth, which reifies the myth of the Global Police Officer: of the two series, all focus groups preferred it. Tour of Duty resolved the "problem" of Vietnam by casting it as an anomaly endured bravely by the All-American soldier. China Beach, popular with the public in general, did not include the deep structures of the female hero myths and relied on more traditional stereotypes to depict women as heroes. China Beach resolved the "problem" of Vietnam by defining it as a continuing traumatic experience fraught with ambiguity and from which recovery is long and slow, matching the general perception of the war. While the critical analysis revealed the deep structures of the series, the focus group participants often missed detailed character interactions providing a basis for the narratives. Focus groups revealed: preference of Tour of Duty by all groups, a deep belief in the myth of the Global Police Officer, an emphasis on gender roles as women's roles alone, and assessment that gender role stereotypes portrayed in the series were typical of that period and reality for veterans in Vietnam.
520 $a If the appearance of the Vietnam war as a subject of entertainment programming offers a chance to explain and re-define the war in ways that ultimately influence our notions of the war itself, it is clear that China Beach and Tour of Duty provide redefinitions compatible with our preconceived notions of war, men and women. It may be they are incompatible with what was the Vietnam war.
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