Clint Eastwood's cinema of trauma : essays on PTSD in the director's films /

Clint Eastwood's movies have presented sympathetic narratives of characters enduring personal trauma as they turn to violence to survive calamity or sustain social order. In this collection of new essays, contributors examine his films as studies on PTSD that expose the social conditions that t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Redmon, Allen H., 1972- (Author)
Other Authors:	Hamilton, Charles R., 1951- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Subjects:	Eastwood, Clint, > 1930- > Criticism and interpretation. Post-traumatic stress disorder in motion pictures.

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Summary:	Clint Eastwood's movies have presented sympathetic narratives of characters enduring personal trauma as they turn to violence to survive calamity or sustain social order. In this collection of new essays, contributors examine his films as studies on PTSD that expose the social conditions that tolerate or trigger traumatization and imagine a way through individual and collective trauma.
Physical Description:	vii, 192 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781476667508 1476667500