Clint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma

Download or read book Clint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma written by Charles R. Hamilton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.