Traumatic Imprints
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Traumatic Imprints

Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Traumatic Imprints

Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War

About this book

Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike. Traumatic Imprints traces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along with links to formal and narrative developments in military and civilian filmmaking. Offering close readings of a series of films alongside analysis of period scholarship in psychiatry and bolstered by research in trauma theory and documentary studies, Noah Tsika argues that trauma was foundational in postwar American culture. Examining wartime and postwar debates about the use of cinema as a vehicle for studying, publicizing, and even what has been termed “working through” war trauma, this book is an original contribution to scholarship on the military-industrial complex.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Traumatic Imprints
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Documenting the ā€œResidue of Battleā€
  8. 1. ā€œImaging the Mindā€: Military Psychiatry Meets Documentary Film
  9. 2. Solemn Venues: War Trauma and the Expanding Nontheatrical Realm
  10. 3. Selling ā€œPsycho Filmsā€: Trauma Cinema and the Military-Industrial Complex
  11. 4. Psychodocudramatics: Role-Playing War Trauma from the Hospital to Hollywood
  12. 5. ā€œCasualties of the Spiritā€: Let There Be Light and Its Contexts
  13. Conclusion: Traumatic Returns
  14. Notes
  15. Select Bibliography
  16. Index