Course
The Vietnam War on Screen
Sat 20 Aug, 11.30am – 5pm
In the concluding part of our war on screen series we take a visual tour through contemporary and classic films about the Vietnam War, considering how the conflict changed both cinema and American society itself.
Cinema dealing with the Vietnam experience, on all sides, has continued to ask difficult questions, and wrestle with the moral fallout from a war in which there are not only no clear heroes or villains, but no clear victor. Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Platoon, Heaven & Earth, Born on the Fourth of July – all works that shone a light on not only the war itself, but the lives of those it impacted.
Kenton Hall will be looking at how cinema and television directly influenced our understanding of the Vietnam War and the politics surrounding it, as well as changing our view of war itself.
Course Breakdown:
11.30am – Introduction
12pm – Vietnam on Film (Documentary footage)
12.30pm – Films contemporary to the conflict
1pm – Effect of cinema on the perception of Vietnam and allegories about the war
1.30pm – Lunch
2.30pm – Revisitation - Modern films about Vietnam
3.30pm – Reinterrogation - How do films about specific wars reflect on subsequent wars?
4.30pm – Conclusion
5pm – End
This course will be delivered in person at Phoenix.
Further Information
Price: £18 – Bundle offer available – book all 3 ‘War on Screen’ courses for £45, simply add to your basket and the discount will be automatically applied at checkout.
Tutor: Kenton Hall
Booking Information:
This 1 day course will run at Phoenix on Saturday 20 August, 11.30am – 5pm
You must be 18 or over to attend.
Cancellation Policy:
We do not offer refunds for cancellations of bookings, except in exceptional circumstances. In the event that an advertised course is withdrawn, we will endeavour to give 7 days’ notice and a full refund will be made.
About the tutor
Kenton Hall is an award-winning Canadian writer, director, musician and teacher, with numerous short and feature film credits to his name – both behind and in front of the camera. Kenton also teaches a BTEC in Creative Media Production through Leicester College and The Art of Screenwriting here at Phoenix. He has played a variety of roles on-stage and screen, from Les Miserables and Muppets Most Wanted to 4th Floor of Singapore and Father to Fall. He most recently wrote, directed and co-starred in the feature film A Dozen Summers, published the comic memoir Bisection, about living and parenting with bipolar disorder and co-wrote the Audible Drama Getting Better, starring Rhod Gilbert, Kathryn Drysdale and Mark Gatiss.
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