Traumatic Imprints

Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War

By: Noah Tsika

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Paperback | 2 October 2018 | Edition Number 1

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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 in the United States military, along with their 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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"This book creates a space in which trauma of all kinds can be explored and confronted." * Film Matters *

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