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.

About the Author
Charles R. Hamilton is a professor of English at Northeast Texas Community College in Mount Pleasant, Texas, where he teaches film, literature, and composition courses, and adjunct professor at Texas A&M University Central Texas in Killeen, where he teaches communications and liberal studies courses. He has presented numerous papers at film conferences, and is currently the chair of the Adaptation: Literature, Film, and Culture Area for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association.

Allen H. Redmon is an associate professor of English and Film Studies at Texas A&M University Central Texas in Killeen, Texas.


Book Information
ISBN 9781476667508
Author Charles R. Hamilton
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm