Clint Eastwood’s Cinema of Trauma: Essays on PTSD in the Director’s Films

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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.