THE NAM by Fiona Banner

Frith Street Books, 1997, First edition, 8" X 11", Paperback

Very good

The Nam is a 1000 page all-text flick book: a compilation of total descriptions of the well-known Vietnam films Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Born on the Fourth of July, Hamburger Hill, and Platoon. The films seem never to begin or end but are described in their entirety to make a gutting 11 hour supermovie. Banner describes the films as though she is there, not influencing the plot, but always on set running alongside the action. A massive undertaking, “It has been described as unreadable.”