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The American Experience: Vietnam Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

Ansen, David. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Newsweek 5 Nov. 1984: 74.

Bemrose, John. "Enduring Human Cruelty." Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Maclean's 26 Nov. 1984: 77-78.

Benson, Sheila. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Los Angeles Times 15 Nov. 1984, calendar: 1.

Bernstein, Adam. "Dith Pran; Activist Brought Attention to Cambodian Genocide." Washington Post 31 Mar. 2008: B06.

Blake, Richard A. "Film: War Images." Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. America 23 Mar. 1985: 236.

Boyd, Lindsey. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Monthly Film Bulletin Dec. 1984: 383.

Burgler, R.A. The Eyes of the Pineapple: Revolutionary Intellectuals and Terror in Democratic Kampuchea. Saarbrucken: Verlag Breitenbach, 1990.

Cambodia on Our Conscience. Videocassette. Recorded from a broadcast December 11, 1979, by WFAA-TV, Dallas Texas. University of Georgia, 1979.

Cambodia's Killing Fields http://www.thekillingfields.cjb.net/ [Archived]

Cambodia: A Nation Is Dying. Videocassette. Recorded from a broadcast of the program "World," November 6, 1979, by PBS. University of Georgia, 1979.

Cambodian Information Center Homepage http://www.cambodia.org/

Cambodian Tragedy: Meanings for America. Dir. Joseph Short. Videocassette. City Club of Cleveland, 1979.

Canby, Vincent. "Screen: Tale of Death and Life of a Cambodian." Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. New York Times 2 Nov. 1984: C10.

Chandler, David P. Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot. Rev. ed. Boulder: Westview P, 1999.

Chandler, David P. The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War and Revolution since 1945. New Haven: Yale UP, 1991.

Chandler, David P., and Ben Kiernan, eds. Revolution and its Aftermath in Kampuchea: Eight Essays. New Haven: Yale U Southeast Asia Studies, 1983.

Coleman, John. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. New Statesman 23 Nov. 1984: 33.

Crowdus, Gary, ed. The Political Companion to American Film. Chicago: Lakeview P, 1994.

Denby, David. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. New York 12 Nov. 1984: 121.

The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project, Inc. http://www.dithpran.org/

Dith Pran: "The Killing Fields." Videocassette. South Puget Sound Community College, 1991.

Forshey, Gerald E. "Current Cinema: The Killing Fields." Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Christian Century 30 Jan. 1985: 105.

From Sideshow to Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/

From the Killing Fields. Rep. Peter Jennings/ABC News. Videocassette. MPI Home Video, 1990.

Gelmis, Joseph. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Newsday 2 Nov. 1984: C3.

Goodbye Cambodia. Dir./Prod./Edit. Kris Paterson. Photo. Peter Ducane. Filmstrip. Work House Productions, 1974.

Gregg, Robert W. "The Ten Best Films about International Relations." World Policy Journal 16 (1999): 129-34.

Him, Chanrithy. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up under the Khmer Rouge: A Memoir. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Ho, Tienfong. "The First Killing Fields Memorial: Mythmaking as Memorial Project." (Im)permanence: Cultures in/out of Time. Pittsburgh: Center for the Arts in Society, 2008. 109-19.

Hoberman, J. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Village Voice 13 Nov. 1984: 57.

Hollywood and Vietnam. Videocassette. Gwynedd Mercy College, 1999.

Facts and brief analysis of Joffe's career. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Jo-Ku/Joff-Roland.html

Jackson, Karl D. Cambodia 1975-1978: Rendevous with Death. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1989.

Jhirad, Susan. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Cineaste Jan.-Feb. 1985: 50.

Kathy Amen's Movie Reviews http://www.kathyamen.net/reviews/rvkillf.html

Kauffman, Stanley. "Stanley Kauffmann On Films: A War; a Farewell." Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. New Republic 26 Nov. 1984: 24-25.

Kiernan, Ben, ed. Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community. New Haven: Yale U Southeast Asia Studies, 1993.

Kissel, Howard. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Women's Wear Daily 1 Nov. 1984: 16.

Kissin, Eve. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Films in Review Jan. 1985: 47

Kopkind, Andrew. "Films: The Killing Fields." Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Nation 1 Dec. 1984: 594-95.

Laderman, Scott. "Burying Culpability: The Killing Fields (1984), US Foreign Policy, and the Political Limits of Film-Making in Reagan-Era America." Historical Journal Of Film, Radio And Television 30.2 (2010): 203-20.

Lafreniere, Bree. Music through the Dark: A Tale of Survival in Cambodia. Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 2000.

Lay, Sody. "The Cambodian Tragedy: Its Writers and Representations." Amerasia Journal 27.2 (2001): 171-82.

Lincoln’s Vietnam War Page http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/8806/index.html [Archived]

Loukides, Paul, and Linda K. Fuller, eds. Beyond the Stars. Bowling Green: Bowling Green U Popular P, 1990.

Martin, Douglas. "Dith Pran, Photojournalist and Survivor of the Killing Fields, Dies at 65." New York Times 31 Mar. 2008.

Musto, Michael. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Saturday Review 1-2 Jan.1985: 82.

O'Brien, Tom. "In Cold Bloodbath: The Killing Fields et. al." Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Commonweal 14 Dec. 1984: 686.

Palmer, William J. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

Park, James. "Bombs and Pol Pot." Sight and Sound 54 (1984/1985): 14-16.

Powers of the President: Foreign Policy â€" Nixon and Ford. Dir. Jeremy Cooper. Videocassette. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1996.

Pran, Dith, comp., and Kim DePaul, ed. Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.

Reed, Rex. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. New York Post 2 Nov 1984: 43.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Samsara: A Film about Survival and Recovery in Cambodia. Dir./Writ./Ed. Ellen Bruno. Videocassette. Samsura Film Library, 1989.

"Schanberg, Sydney [Hillel]." Current Biography 51.8 (1990): 57-61.

Schanberg, Sydney. "The Death and Life of Dith Pran: A Story of Cambodia." New York Times Magazine 20 Jan. 1980: 16-65.

Schanberg, Sydney. The Killing Fields: The Facts behind the Film. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, 1984.

Schickel, Richard. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Time 5 Nov. 1984: 81.

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J. "A Transnational Hip Hop Nation: Prach, Cambodia, and Memorialising the Killing Fields." Life Writing 5.1 (2008): 11-27.

Simon, John. "Film: Automata." Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. National Review 28 Dec. 1984: 47-48.

Sterritt, David. Rev. of The Killing Fields, dir. Roland Joffe. Christian Science Monitor 8 Nov. 1984: 27.

Vietnam Movies, The Way It Really Was. Videocassette. MPI Home Video, 1991.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page http://thewall-usa.com/index.html

Vietnam Yesterday and Today http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/

Vietnam: A Television History. Dir. Elizabeth Deane. Videocassette. Sony and WGBH Educational Foundation, 1987.

The Wars of Viet Nam: 1945-1975 http://students.vassar.edu/~vietnam/index.html [Archived]

Wood, Dennis. "Seeing and Being: The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, The Killing Fields, Politics in Movies." Film Quarterly 39 (1986): 62-65.