Sylvia Shin Huey Chong, "Restaging the War: 'The Deer Hunter' and the Primal Scene of Violence"[dead link] (PDF at Academia.edu), Cinema Journal, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Winter, 2005), p. 103: "It is interesting to contrast Nguyen's narrative of failed assimilation with The Deer Hunter's consolidation of white ethnics (Russian or Ukrainian Americans) into the American body politic through their participation in the Vietnam War."
George Morris, "Ready, Aim... Click", Texas Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 3 (March 1979), page 142: "The film attempts to portray the effect of the Vietnam war on three Slavic American steelworkers from a small town in Pennsylvania who volunteer for the war."
Steven Biel, "The Deer Hunter Debate", Bright Lights Film Journal (ISSN 0147-4049), July 7, 2016: "The first sixty-eight minutes of the three-hour film establish their friendships within Clairton's traditional, patriotic Russian Orthodox community. (The characters' ethnicity isn't actually specified in the screenplay. Viewers have variously identified them as Russian, Slovak, Carpatho-Russian, Ukrainian, Rusyn, Polish, and Belarusian. Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol, who saw a preview of the film in New York in late November 1978, wrote in his diary that the movie's setting was 'where all my cousins are from' and 'was really Czechoslovakian.')"
Sterling, Joe (July 5, 1077). ""Deer Hunter" Filming Under Way". Weirton Daily Times. West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Archived from the original on November 29, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
Sterling, Joe (July 5, 1077). ""Deer Hunter" Filming Under Way". Weirton Daily Times. West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Archived from the original on November 29, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
Realizing The Deer Hunter: An Interview with Michael Cimino. Blue Underground. Interview on The Deer Hunter UK Region 2 DVD and the StudioCanal Blu-Ray. First half of video on YouTube
Shooting The Deer Hunter: An interview with Vilmos Zsigmond. Blue Underground. Interview with the cinematographer, located on The Deer Hunter UK Region 2 DVD and StudioCanal Blu-Ray. First half of video on YouTube.
Playing The Deer Hunter: An interview with John Savage. Blue Underground. Interview with the actor Savage, located on the UK Region 2 DVD and StudioCanal Blu-Ray. First half of video on YouTube
