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Writing About Film by Jules LeFort-Cleary: Apocalypse Now

Scholarly Sources

  • Gillespie, Gerald. “SAVAGE PLACES REVISITED: CONRAD’S ‘HEART OF DARKNESS’ AND COPPOLA’S ‘APOCALYPSE NOW.’” The Comparatist, vol. 9, 1985, pp. 69–88. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44366725. 

  • Suid, Lawrence. “‘APOCALYPSE NOW’: Francis Ford Coppola Stages His Own Vietnam War.” Cinéaste, vol. 8, no. 3, 1978, pp. 32–61. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41685863. 

  • Norris, Margot. “MODERNISM AND VIETNAM: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’S ‘APOCALYPSE NOW.’” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, 1998, pp. 730–66. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26286046. 

  • Kinder, Marsha. “The Power of Adaptation in ‘Apocalypse Now.’” Film Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, 1979, pp. 12–20. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1211972. 

  • Hellmann, John. “Vietnam and the Hollywood Genre Film: Inversions of American Mythology in the Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now.” American Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, 1982, pp. 418–39. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2712690. 

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