“Welcome to the Suck.” That was the tagline of Anthony Swofford’s best-selling Gulf War memoir, Jarhead, but it also neatly summed up my opinion of the book. I bought the audio version after two ...

It is Groundhog D-day: a study of bafflement and frustration and disillusion ... with technical panache and sensual texture of images and soun “Thank God,” says an exultant marine at the end of this ...

After a slew of Vietnam movies exploding with blood and guts, “Jarhead” slows the hard-hitting action down and opens a doorway to a different aspect of war.Based on the best-selling 2003 memoir by ...

There’s plenty of heavy metal in “Jarhead” – tanks, guns, grenades, bullets and bombers – but just as important is the heavy meta: self-awareness.Without the allusions and references, “Jarhead” would ...

Cecelia MacDonald is a recent gradute of York University's Cinema and Media Studies program with an ephasis on screenwriting and genre-studies. They are based out of Toronto, working on small film ...

The dirty secret about combat memoirs isn’t that war is senseless or that heroes are often terrified or that the battlefield can turn even good men into dehumanized monsters or that everyone is bored ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In his best-selling memoir, “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles,” Anthony Swofford writes a beautifully astute passage about his ...

Oscar night in April 1979 marked a shift of key for the Hollywood war film. Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, about a Russian Orthodox community in an American steel town whose sons go to Vietnam, won ...

The new film Jarhead tells the story of a marine sniper in the first Gulf War, who never fires a shot. Jacki Lyden talks with director Sam Mendes about why he chose to make the movie, which is based ...