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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Full Metal Jacket Information
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 Full Metal Jacket (1987) is an Oscar-nominated[1] Stanley Kubrick film based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The title refers to the type of ammunition used by infantry riflemen. The film portrays the urban Vietnam War fought by the... 
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Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 film that follows a group of recruits through a brutal Marine boot camp through their tour of duty in Vietnam. Written and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford . In Vietnam The...
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 The New York Observer Matthew, Julie, Marc Make MacMovies
5/1/2007: 418 words, approx. 1 pagesBathtub filmmakers in New York can score face-time and pointers from Tribeca-bound Hollywood brass—gratis—through Sunday, May 6. Having hosted discussions with directors like Fargo’s Joel and Ethan Coen and American Psycho’s Mary Harron, the “Filmmaker Talks” workshops at the Apple Store Soho, presented by Apple... summary from source:
The New York Observer Mendes\'d5 Memoir-Pic Jarhead: What Happened \'d4Over There\'d5?
10/30/2005: 2,237 words, approx. 8 pagesSam Mendes’ Jarhead, from a screenplay by William Broyles Jr., based on the book by Anthony Swofford, begins with a U.S. Marine Corps basic-training sequence reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987), though without a character as profanely hilarious as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (played... summary from source:
The New York Observer Mendes' Memoir-Pic Jarhead: What Happened 'Over There'?
10/30/2005: 2,237 words, approx. 8 pagesSam Mendes’ Jarhead, from a screenplay by William Broyles Jr., based on the book by Anthony Swofford, begins with a U.S. Marine Corps basic-training sequence reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987), though without a character as profanely hilarious as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (played... summary from source:
The New York Observer Steve Bochco Brings TV War to TV
4/3/2005: 1,958 words, approx. 7 pagesA female soldier in fatigues stands at a phone booth, starkly framed against a clean, white U.S. Army barracks, fretting over her imminent deployment to Iraq. "I know I'm going to get killed," she says, nervously fingering the phone cord. "I've seen those faces on...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Thomas Doherty
4,356 words, approx. 15 pages
 In the following essay, Doherty places Full Metal Jacket within the context of the Vietnam War film, contending that it “exemplifies the Vietnam War film in its mature stage, a stage whose distinguishing quality is its reliance on cinematic, not historical, experience.”
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Critical Essay by Gerri Reaves
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In the following essay, Reaves contrasts Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket with the novel from which it is adapted, Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers.
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Critical Essay by Rich Schweitzer
3,163 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, Schweitzer asserts that Full Metal Jacket's “ability to convey a nuanced historical argument through an artistic medium—in effect, to address simultaneously the audience's hearts and minds—is unique and deserves attention.”
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 83%Me Vs. Myself, Full Metal Jacket
2,262 words, approx. 8 pages
It goes into explaining the theories behind Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and reasons behind the irony.
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