Vivian Kubrick in "" (1968), as a guest at Bryan's birthday party in "Barry Lyndon" (1975), as a guest on a ballroom couch in "The Shining" (1980), and as a news camera operator in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). In her late teens, Kubrick directed, filmed, and edited a half-hour documentary for the BBC, "The Making of "The Shining"", which is included on all DVDs and many videotapes of the film. She composed the score to his next film, "Full Metal Jacket", using the pseudonym Abigail Mead. She also shot 18 hours of footage for a documentary on the making of the film,
Full Metal Jacket "Full Metal Jacket" have received little attention from critics and reviewers. Michael Pursell's essay ""Full Metal Jacket": The Unravelling of Patriarchy" (1988) was an early, in-depth consideration of the film's two-part structure and its criticism of masculinity, arguing that the film shows "war and pornography as facets of the same system". Most reviews have focused on military brainwashing themes in the boot camp training section of the film, while seeing the latter half of the film as more confusing and disjointed in content. Rita Kempley of "The Washington Post" wrote, "it's as if they borrowed bits of every war movie