“We'll let the gooks play the Indians”

This article focuses on the representation of the frontier myth as an ideological bias shaping one’s perception of the Vietnam War in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Full Metal Jacket. This article argues that whereas various Vietnam War films released prior to Full Metal Jacket depicted the frontier myth as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vincent Jaunas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 2019-04-01
Series:Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/18912