[7.4.3] Students could also analyze how institutional forces use genres to create fantasy, idealized versions of how problems are solved, who solves the program, and the types of tools employed to solve the problem. For example, films about the Vietnam War — see The American War Library or vietnamwar.net — portray the “problem” either as a lack of military effort, determination, or patriotism in wanting to “win” the war (as in The Green Berets with John Wayne, a version of reality consistent with the western genres of “good” versus “evil” promoted by conservative, military institutional forces) or as a failure to understand the complexities of the Vietnam culture and civil war as in Apocalypse Now, Born on the Fourth of July, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, and The Deer Hunter.
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