Clint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma

<p> 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.</p><p> In this collection of new essays contributors examine his films--from <I>The Outlaw Josey Wales</I> to <I>Sully</I>--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.</p>