Presented by Russell Davies Film: the surprising success of Oliver Stone 's Platoon with both audiences and critics in America heralds a revaluation of the Vietnam war in American life.
Directors such as Stanley
Kubrick and Francis Coppola are also finishing films which provide a more realistic view of that war than Rambo or Missing in Action. Gilbert Adair looks at Hollywood's treatment of this traumatic conflict.
Fashion: the New Look, launched by Christian Dior in 1947, marked the end of wartime austerity - and perhaps also the end of the freedoms that women had enjoyed during the war. Forty years later the New Look has been revived by such designers as Jasper Conran and Jean Paton.
Elizabeth Wilson examines the return to constructive clothing, and asks whether it reflects a loss of freedom of movement in women's lives.
Graphic designer JANE WALKER Directors
DAISY GOODWIN , KEVIN JACKSON Producer KEVIN LOADER Editor JOHN ARCHER