Contested Representations of Agent Orange’s Destruction in Vu Le My’s Where War Has Passed and Masako Sakata’s Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem

• Main Author: Trang, Nguyen Thi Nhu
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: Agent Orange; Vietnam War; Human-Nature Boundaries; Destruction; Documentary
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol21/iss4/13; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1412/viewcontent/RA_2012.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study examines two documentaries on the impact of Agent Orange in post-war Vietnam: Where War Has Passed (1997), by the Vietnamese director Vu Le My and Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem (2007), by Japanese director Masako Sakata. In order to depict the destructiveness of Agent Orange, these dir...