The cult of the victim veteran : MAGA fantasies in lost-war America /: MAGA fantasies in lost-war America. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jerry Lembcke.
• Authors: Lembcke, Jerry, 1943-
• Contents: Introduction. 1. Spectacle, Science, and War Trauma: MAGA's Tangled Back Stories - Spectacle: Bridging Tradition and Enlightenment - A Visuel Leads the Way in the "Science" of Mental Health - The Camera: Heaven-sent for Spectacle in the Science of Mental Health - The "Great War" as Spectacle: When Casualties Become Story-Telling Props 2. Shellshock: Political Cultural, Medical Minds, and Moving Pictures - Catapult to More War: Germany’s Dolchstosslegend - The Myth of the Hostile Homecoming: Gendered and Medicalized - The Great War in Triple Spectacle: Machines, Their Casualties, and Moving Pictures - The Unseen Incoming from the Big Guns - Hidden Injuries: The Political Text - The “Gold-Star Mother”: The Spectacle of Death as an Achievement 3. The Spectacle of Antiwar Warriors: Political Dissent Is Made a Medical Disorder - Sir! No Sir! - Discrediting Antiwar Veterans: Not Really Veterans, Not Real Men - Psychologizing the Political - Political Spectacle Makes the News, the News Makes Medical Science - The New York Times Medicalizes Veteran Dissent - The “Crazy Vet” Movies - Victim-Veterans and Victim Nations 4. Agent Orange: As Spectacle and Trope - “Seeing” and Remembering the War - Imagining Agent Orange - The Quiet Backstory to Agent Orange - “Earth Day was a Snow Job”—I.F. Stone - Veterans and Agent Orange - 1978: Agent Orange Comes Out - Agent Orange Goes to The Movies - Agent Orange: A Conversion Disorder; 5. Traumatic Brain Injury: From News to Nomenclature - World War II: Different War, Different Representations - Korea and The Return of Spectacle - The Battle of Paradigms Resumed: Neurology vs. Psychiatry - The Central Park Jogger and NFL Quarterbacks: Rehearsing for TBI in War Trauma - Recipe for Spectacle: A War Reporter with a War Injury 6. "Moral Injury": Its Own Spectacle - "Moral Injury": War Trauma de Jour - Moral Injury: Its Own Spectacle - Seen Combat? Who’s to Say? - What Did You Do in The War, Daddy? - Atrocities and Moral Injury: A Troublesome Mix - The Consequences of “Moral Injury” - Moral Injury a Dog Whistle for MAGA 7. Trauma in a Post-truth Era: Back to Charcot’s Salon? - Billy Pilgrim Psychologized - Billy Pilgrim’s Creator Psychologized - Trauma as Spectacle - Forward: From Modern Rationality to Pre-modernism Spectacle - Steve Bannon: The White House Whisperer - MAGA’s Call: A New Zion or Nihilism?
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (120 pages)
• Subjects: 355.0019; Veterans -- Psychology; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Veterans -- Mental health -- United States; Veterans -- Political activity -- United States; Disabled veterans -- Mental health -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000912470; 9781000912432
• Related ISBNs: 9781032490267; 9781032490243
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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