Human Duality, Moral Transformation, and the Vietnam War in Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket

This article examines the representation of the Vietnam War in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) and Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987). It contends that along with the directors’ attempts to portray the Vietnam War, and specifically U.S. intervention in it, both Coppola and Kubri...

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Main Author: Tatiana Prorokova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 2018-12-01
Series:Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Online Access:http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/article/view/6733