Full Metal Jacket (1987)

A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in basic training under the command of the punishing Sgt. Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

Books on Full Metal Jacket

		Matthew Modine Full Metal Jacket Diary 2005

		Greg Jenkins Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation, Three Novels, Three Films Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1997

Books with substantial mentioning of Full Metal Jacket

		Jürgen Müller Die besten Filme der 80er Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

		Gene D. Phillips, Rodney Hill The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick, From Day of the Fight to Eyes Wide Shut New York NY, 2002

		Mario Falsetto Stanley Kubrick, A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

		James Howard Stanley Kubrick Companion London, 1999

		Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987 Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988 pp. 131-134