Traumatic Imprints : Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War / Noah Tsika.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsika, Noah, Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonfiction films--United States--History and criticism.

Nonfiction films.

World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Documenting the "Residue of Battle"

1. "Imaging the Mind": Military Psychiatry Meets Documentary Film

2. Solemn Venues: War Trauma and the Expanding Nontheatrical Realm

3. Selling "Psycho Films": Trauma Cinema and the Military-Industrial Complex

4. Psychodocudramatics: Role-Playing War Trauma from the Hospital to Hollywood

5. "Casualties of the Spirit": Let There Be Light and Its Contexts

Conclusion: Traumatic Returns

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520969926

0520969928

OCLC:

1028583325