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Writing About Film by Jules LeFort-Cleary: We Were Soldiers

Scholarly Sources

  • Doherty, Thomas. “THE NEW WAR MOVIES AS MORAL REARMAMENT: Black Hawk Down & We Were Soldiers.” Cinéaste, vol. 27, no. 3, 2002, pp. 4–8. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41690152. 

  • Wetta, Frank J., and Martin A. Novelli. “‘Now a Major Motion Picture’: War Films and Hollywood’s New Patriotism.” The Journal of Military History, vol. 67, no. 3, 2003, pp. 861–82. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3397330. 

  • Clarke, E. A. “Ideal Heroes: Nostalgic Constructions of Masculinity in ‘Tigerland’ and ‘We Were Soldiers.’” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 1, 2006, pp. 19–26. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43797252. 

  • Fitzgerald, John J. “The Battle of the Ia Drang Valley: A Comparative Analysis of Generals, the Media, and the Soldiers.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 18, no. 5, 2004, pp. 37–43. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25163721. 

  • Doherty, Thomas. “THE NEW WAR MOVIES AS MORAL REARMAMENT: Black Hawk Down & We Were Soldiers.” Cinéaste, vol. 27, no. 3, 2002, pp. 4–8. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41690152. 

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