- Description
- 1 online resource.
- 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 examines wartime and postwar debates about, aspirations for, and uses of cinema as a vehicle for studying, publicizing, and even 'working through' war trauma"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Traumatic imprints (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Traumatic imprints (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction : documenting the "residue of battle" -- "Imaging the mind" : military psychiatry meets documentary film -- Solemn venues : war trauma and the expanding nontheatrical realm -- Selling "psycho films" : trauma cinema and the military-industrial complex -- Psychodocudramatics : role-playing war trauma from the hospital to Hollywood -- "Casualties of the spirit" : let there be light and its contexts -- Conclusion : traumatic returns.
- ISBN
- 9780520969926 (epub)
- LCCN
- 2018011047
- OCLC
- ssj0002026445
- Author
Tsika, Noah, 1983-
- Title
Traumatic imprints [electronic resource] : cinema, military psychiatry, and the aftermath of war / Noah Tsika.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Tsika, Noah, 1983- author. Traumatic imprints Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520297630 (DLC) 2018007649