2b) I am addressing this topic because I am interested in how the media can function as a means of propaganda during wartime. Since the media reaches a wide range of individuals, lowbrow and highbrow alike, it is one of the most influential forms of media. War films would have particularly influenced civilians’ perception of war, since they did not directly experience the war and instead had to settle for mediated representations of it.
2c) The majority of scholars have written about Apocalypse Now as an anti-war film. For example, in “Hollow Men in Vietnam: A Reading of the Concluding Sequence of Apocalypse Now,” Holger Bachmann argues that Apocalypse Now is an anti-war film, most evident in its ending sequence of Captain Willard killing
2c) The majority of scholars have written about Apocalypse Now as an anti-war film. For example, in “Hollow Men in Vietnam: A Reading of the Concluding Sequence of Apocalypse Now,” Holger Bachmann argues that Apocalypse Now is an anti-war film, most evident in its ending sequence of Captain Willard killing