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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. In this collection of new essays, contributors examine his films—from The Outlaw Josey Wales to Sully—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.

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Charles R. Hamilton is a professor of English at Northeast Texas Community College in Mount Pleasant, Texas, where he teaches film, literature, and composition courses, and adjunct professor at Texas A&M University Central Texas in Killeen, where he teaches communications and liberal studies courses. He has presented numerous papers at film conferences, and is currently the chair of the Adaptation: Literature, Film, and Culture Area for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Allen H. Redmon is an associate professor of English and Film Studies at Texas A&M University Central Texas in Killeen, Texas.

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