Religion and Moral Injury in American Vietnam War Films
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This essay focuses on the representation of religion in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987), Oliver Stone’s Born Fourth July (1989), and Brian de Palma’s Casualties War (1989). It explores how intersects with experience moral trauma at an individual level, films portray injury to be as damaging aspect war for Vietnam veterans grievous physical harm. Further, considers is a fundamental component collective nation experienced and, turn, culture wars that erupted during after Vietnam.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Religion and Film
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1092-1311']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.jrf.25.02.001