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James Moran

James Martin Moran is a copywriter, copyeditor, and proofreader. He runs JMM Communications.

Casualties of Genre, Difference, & Vision: Casualties of War

Casualties of Genre, Difference, & Vision: Casualties of War

by James Moran
September 15, 2008

The film subverts the conventional guilty pleasures of the Vietnam genre by stressing the guilt and blunting the pleasure.

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