Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture Summary and Reviews

Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture
by Eric Greene

Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture
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Author: Eric Greene
Contributor: Richard Slotkin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-12-15
ISBN: 0819563293
Number of pages: 286
Publisher: Wesleyan
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Book Review: Okay But Author Goes Overboard
Summary: 3 Stars

As a die-hard fan of the "Planet of the Apes" movie series, I eagerly snapped up this book. While the author makes good points in showing the cultural events that ended up in the "Apes" movies (the peace marchers, etc), he goes overboard in trying to read something into EVERYTHING the movies contained. Everything. Case in point: he tries to say that Taylor in the first movie being hosed down was tied to the use of water hoses on civil rights protestors. He completely overlooks the possibility that Taylor was hosed because animals are sometimes hit with water to stop frowned on activity. Since Taylor was seen as an animal by the Apes, that's the way they treated him. As Freud once said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." It isn't necessary for all of the strained connections to then-current politics. There are enough in the movies that could stand on their own but I suppose that wouldn't be enough to warrent a full-scale book. Another major drawback with the book is the pc, far left, psuedo-history of the Vietnam War era that the author constantly references (Exactly why does Nixon, the rightist, get the blame for Vietnam when it was for the most part leftist democrat Lyndon Johnson and democrat JFK who waded the U.S. into Vietnam? It was Nixon who pulled the U.S. out, not a leftist. And exactly why does Vietnam become an "imperialist venture", when a sizable amount of the South Vietnamese supported U.S. aid?). Read this only after seeing the movies and reading an accurate history of the Vietnam War era.

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