Traumatic Imprints: Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War
Noah Tsika
Abstract
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 examines wartime and postwar debates about, aspirations for, and uses of cinema as a vehicle for studying, publicizing, and even “working through” war trauma.
Keywords: documentary, military, cinema, film, psychiatry, psychology, trauma, war trauma, PTSD
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520297630 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520297630.001.0001 |
