Some Smothering Dreams: The Combat Film in Contemporary Hollywood

Michael Hammond

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In William Friedkin’s recent hit film Rules of Engagement (1999), there is a Vietnam sequence which is, in the director’s own words, central to the film’s narrative. Its purpose is twofold: to show that the character Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) ‘. . . will stop at nothing to save the

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