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Writing About Film by Jules LeFort-Cleary: Jarhead

Scholarly Sources

  • Wright, Geoffrey A. “The Desert of Experience: ‘Jarhead’ and the Geography of the Persian Gulf War.” PMLA, vol. 124, no. 5, 2009, pp. 1677–89. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25614392. 

  • Peebles, Stacey. “Lines of Sight: Watching War in ‘Jarhead’ and ‘My War: Killing Time in Iraq.’” PMLA, vol. 124, no. 5, 2009, pp. 1662–76. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25614391. 

  • Stewart, Garrett. “Digital Fatigue: Imaging War in Recent American Film.” Film Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 4, 2009, pp. 45–55. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2009.62.4.45. 

  • Kooijman, Jaap. “The Desert of the Real: America as Hyperreality.” Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture - Revised Edition, Amsterdam University Press, 2013, pp. 69–94. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wp7ck.8. 

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If you cannot find the article, email Mrs. LeFort-Cleary at jules.lefort@montgomerybell.edu with the article citation and she can assist you. 

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