1 Them as Us: Redemption of the Frontier Myth in post-Vietnam Cinema Winner of the 2015 CASA Student Award Hervé Mayer Paris Ouest University/ U.C. Irvine _________ Paper first presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the California American Studies Association (CASA) organized on April 24-25 at California State Fullerton Presented in the panel “History, Myth and Memory” chaired by Pr. Allison Perlman *** Winner of the CASA Graduate Student Award and presented upon invitation at the 2015 American Studies Association Annual Conference Organized on October 8-11 in Toronto, Canada Presented in the “Regional Chapters Committee: A Discussion with Student Award Winners” chaired by Pr. Brett Mizelle