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This is a study of media and cultural artifacts that constitute the remembrance of a tragic war as reflected in the stories of eight people who lived it. Using memoir, history, and criticism, Crossing the Street in Hanoi is based on scholarly research, teaching, and writing as well as extensive personal journals, interviews, and exclusive primary source material. Each chapter uses a human story to frame an exploration in media and cultural criticism. What weaves these different threads into a whole cloth are the stories of the Vietnam War and the long shadow it casts over American and Vietnamese cultures.

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'Wilder performs a magic trick by both charming a reader with her evocations of today's vibrant Vietnam and jarring us with the torments of what she calls the undead war ' With thousands of books in print on the Vietnam War, is there anything new to say? Readers of 'Crossing the Street in Hanoi' will readily agree that there is. Carol Wilder's remarkable journey - a mix of sometime painful memoir, astute literature and film criticism, and illuminating oral histories of Vietnamese and American veterans - makes the connection between the American War in Vietnam and the Vietnam War in America as lucid as any book I have read.' 'What a delight it is to read Carol Wilder's perceptive book on Hanoi. Her aim is to put a human face on what was an inhuman experience and she succeeds wonderfully... She is to be congratulated for achieving such a fine balancing act, effectively getting her to the other side of the street. I hope readers will enjoy Carol Wilder's book as much as I did.'

Few books in my experience have been so original in method, so sophisticated in analysis, so thorough in scholarship, so plain damned fun to read, laughing through tears. --Henry McGuckin, San Francisco State University

"'Wilder performs a magic trick by both charming a reader with her evocations of today's vibrant Vietnam and jarring us with the torments of what she calls ""the undead war""' -- Peter Davis, Academy Award-winning director of 'Hearts and Minds' With thousands of books in print on the Vietnam War, is there anything new to say? Readers of 'Crossing the Street in Hanoi' will readily agree that there is. Carol Wilder's remarkable journey - a mix of sometime painful memoir, astute literature and film criticism, and illuminating oral histories of Vietnamese and American veterans - makes the connection between the American War in Vietnam and the Vietnam War in America as lucid as any book I have read.'  -- Thomas M. Grace, author, 'Kent State: Death and Dissent during the Long Sixties' 'What a delight it is to read Carol Wilder's perceptive book on Hanoi. Her aim is to put a human face on what was an inhuman experience and she succeeds wonderfully... She is to be congratulated for achieving such a fine balancing act, effectively getting her to the other side of the street. I hope readers will enjoy Carol Wilder's book as much as I did.'  -- William Logan, author, 'Hanoi: Biography of a City', Alfred Deakin Professor and UNESCO Chair of Heritage and Urbanism"

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Carol Wilder is professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York, where from 1995-2007 she was Associate Dean and Chair of Media Studies and Film. From 1975-1995 she served on the Communication Studies faculty at San Francisco State University, including as Professor and Chair. She was named Professor Emerita at SFSU in 1996. She has also served on the faculties of Oberlin College and Emerson College.

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