Clint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma

Clint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma PDF Author: Charles R. Hamilton
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476667500
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Book Description
Throughout his directorial career, 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--a choice that leaves them marginalized rather than redeemed. In this collection of new essays, contributors examine his films--from The Outlaw Josey Wales to Sully--as studies on PTSD that expose the social conditions that tolerate or trigger traumatization and (in his more recent work) imagine a way through individual and collective trauma.