“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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| 發表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda, |
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Miranda
2019
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | 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 a distorting lens imposed upon the reality of the conflict, the specificity of Kubrick’s film lies in its depiction of the myth as a narrative believed by no one, yet actively playacted by everyone. Such a paradoxical endurance of a discarded myth is examined through Jean Baudrillard’s notion of ‘’hyperreality’’, which sheds light on the metafictional and phenomenological dimensions of Full Metal Jacket as an exploration of both the impossibility to access an unbiased perception of reality and the attractiveness of representation. |
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