Clint Eastwood S America

Author : Sam B. Girgus
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745656489

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Clint Eastwood's America by Sam B. Girgus Pdf

The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona. Eastwood responds to a national yearning for a vision of individual action and initiative, personal responsibility, and potential for renewal. An iconic director and star for his westerns, urban thrillers, and adventure stories, Eastwood has taken film art to new horizons of meaning in a series of masterpieces that engage the ethical and moral consciousness of our times, including Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Mystic River. He revolutionized the war film with the unprecedented achievement of filming the opposing sides of the same historic battle in Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, using this saga to present a sharply critical representation of the new America that emerged out of the war, a society of images and spectacles. This timely examination of Clint Eastwood’s oeuvre against the backdrop of contemporary America will be fascinating reading for students of film and popular culture, as well as readers with interests in Eastwood’s work, American film and culture.

Author : Marc Eliot
Publisher : Crown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307336897

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American Rebel by Marc Eliot Pdf

In American Rebel, bestselling author and acclaimed film historian Marc Eliot examines the ever-exciting, often-tumultuous arc of Clint Eastwood's life and career. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood--one of film's greatest living legends--represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema. Eliot writes with unflinching candor about Eastwood's highs and lows, his artistic successes and failures, and the fascinating, complex relationship between his life and his craft. Eliot's prodigious research reveals how a college dropout and unambitious playboy rose to fame as Hollywood's "sexy rebel," eventually and against all odds becoming a star in the Academy pantheon as a multiple Oscar winner. Spanning decades, American Rebel covers the best of Eastwood's oeuvre, films that have fast become American classics: Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, and Gran Torino. Filled with remarkable insights into Eastwood's personal life and public work, American Rebel is highly entertaining and the most complete biography of one of Hollywood's truly respected and beloved stars–-an actor who, despite being the Man with No Name, has left his indelible mark on the world of motion pictures.

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307788139

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Clint Eastwood by Richard Schickel Pdf

Through extensive, exclusive interviews with Eastwood (and the friends and colleagues of a lifetime), Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel has penetrated a complex character who has always been understood too quickly, too superficially. Schickel pierces Eastwood's monumental reserve to reveal the anger and the shyness, the shrewdness and frankness, the humor and powerful will that have helped make him what he is today. of photos.

Author : Joe Street
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063485

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Dirty Harry's America by Joe Street Pdf

“Street provides a crucial critical and cultural service by not only studying Eastwood’s individual films in sharp detail but also by providing a close and serious analysis of the cultural and historic times of the films.”—Sam B. Girgus, author of Clint Eastwood’s America “By far the most comprehensive, sustained, and detailed discussion of the Dirty Harry phenomenon. A thorough and engaging account of how a fictitious renegade cop became an enduring icon of the angry conservative backlash that sought to halt 1960s liberalism in its tracks.”—Nick Heffernan, author of Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry became the prototype for a new kind of movie cop—an antihero in pursuit of his own vision of justice. The Dirty Harry series helped cement Eastwood and his character, Harry Callahan, as central figures in 1970s and 1980s Hollywood cinema. In Dirty Harry’s America, Joe Street argues that the movies shed critical light on the culture and politics of the post-1960s era and locates San Francisco as the symbolic cultural battleground of the time. Across the entire series, conservative anger and moral outrage confront elitist liberalism and moral relativism. Paying particular attention the films' representation of crime, family and community, sexuality, and race, Street maintains that through referencing real events and political struggles, the films themselves became active participants in the culture wars. Unapologetic carrier of right and might, Harry Callahan becomes America’s Ur-conservative: “unbending, moral, incorruptible, and most important, always right.” Long after the series, Callahan’s legacy remains strong in American political discourse, cinema, and pop culture, and he continues to shape Eastwood’s later political and cinematic career.

Author : Drucilla Cornell
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823230147

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Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity by Drucilla Cornell Pdf

In this risk-taking book, a major feminist philosopher engages the work of the actor and director who has progressed from being the stereotypical “man’s man” to pushing the boundaries of the very genres—the Western, the police thriller, the war or boxing movie—most associated with American masculinity. Cornell’s highly appreciative encounter with the films directed by Clint Eastwood revolve around the questions “What is it to be a good man?” and “What is it to be, not just an ethical person, but specifically an ethical man?” Focusing on Eastwood as a director rather than as an actor or cultural icon, she studies Eastwood in relation to major philosophical and ethical themes that have been articulated in her own life’s work. In her fresh and revealing readings of the films, Cornell takes up pressing issues of masculinity as it is caught up in the very definition of ideas of revenge, violence, moral repair, and justice. Eastwood grapples with this involvement of masculinity in and through many of the great symbols of American life, including cowboys, boxing, police dramas, and ultimately war—perhaps the single greatest symbol of what it means (or is supposed to mean) to be a man. Cornell discusses films from across Eastwood’s career, from his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me to Million Dollar Baby. Cornell’s book is not a traditional book of film criticism or a cinematographic biography. Rather, it is a work of social commentary and ethical philosophy. In a world in which we seem to be losing our grip on shared symbols, along with community itself, Eastwood’s films work with the fragmented symbols that remain to us in order to engage masculinity with the most profound moral and ethical issues facing us today.

Author : Marc Eliot
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 0307336883

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American Rebel by Marc Eliot Pdf

From a "New York Times"-bestselling author comes the definitive biography of one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful actors, producers, and directors in the history of American motion pictures. b&w photo insert.

Author : Drucilla Cornell
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780823230129

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Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity by Drucilla Cornell Pdf

Introduction: Shooting Eastwood. Writing the showdown: what's left behind when the sun goes down -- Dancing with the double: reaching out from the darkness within -- Ties that bind: the legacy of a mother's love -- Psychic scars: transformative relationships and moral repair -- Parables of revenge and masculinity in Mystic river / Roger Berkowitz and Drucilla Cornell -- Militarized manhood: shattered images and the trauma of war -- Shades of recognition: privilege, dignity, and the hubris of white manhood -- Conclusion: the last take.

Author : Sara Anson Vaux
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802862952

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The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood by Sara Anson Vaux Pdf

Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood icon, with five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and numerous other accolades for his work as an actor, director, producer, and composer. Yet because he rose to fame in "spaghetti westerns" and Dirty Harry shoot-em-ups, few critics have ventured to explore Eastwood's philosophical, ethical, and artistic agenda as an intellectual filmmaker. Addressing this void, film scholar Sara Anson Vaux analyzes fifteen of Eastwood's best-known films from narrative, artistic, and thematic perspectives. She traces the nuanced development of Eastwood's unfolding moral vision over a forty-year continuum, showing how this vision has grown more sophisticated even as many of the motifs expressing it -- justice, confession, war and peace, the gathering, the search for a perfect world -- have remained the same.

Author : David Graham
Publisher : David Graham
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Actors
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Very Best of Clint Eastwood by David Graham Pdf

Clint Eastwood is one of Hollywood's biggest successes. Originally known for his roles in westerns, he has since demonstrated his versatility in a range of genres and has proven to be as talented a director as he is an actor. Outside of his work, Eastwood is renowned as a strong personality who is never one to hide his views. This book brings together many of his best quotes and provides an extensive insight into one of the most interesting characters in showbiz.

Author : Clint Eastwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469365579

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Clint Eastwood by Clint Eastwood Pdf

Author : Sara Anson Vaux Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440829987

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Clint Eastwood by Sara Anson Vaux Ph.D. Pdf

Clint Eastwood—actor, director, composer, musician, and politician—is undeniably one of the most prolific and accomplished celebrities of the modern age. This book provides insights into Eastwood's life and entire career, from early television appearances to recent award-winning films. He established himself early in his acting career as "the strong silent type" and became known as the "actor's director." In a career that spans seven decades, Eastwood's work has been influential for multiple generations of film audiences as well as actors, directors, and producers. This biography investigates the man who made his characters' lines such as "Go ahead—make my day" and "Get off my lawn" unforgettable, and shows why his movie roles and the films he directed are honored, studied, quoted, and remembered. The book describes everything from Eastwood's formative years and early days as a struggling actor to his family and personal life to his lifelong love of jazz music and his political leanings. The chapters describe not only his tremendous accomplishments and countless successes but also his notable failures—coverage that will intrigue readers interested in the film industry, in the acting craft, and in enduring popular cultural icons.

Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816619581

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Clint Eastwood by Paul Smith Pdf

This book is a large extent to show concern with the way such images have resonated in and with American culture and history during the last twenty or thirty years.Clint Eastwood and his films are in part because of their popularity and their significance role in this cultural discourse.

Author : Lawrence P. Jackson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421444130

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Hold It Real Still by Lawrence P. Jackson Pdf

"The author examines actor Clint Eastwood's influence on the Western film as a genre, as well as how that genre continues to operate into the twenty-first century as an ideological channel for ideas about race and imperialism"--

Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231172001

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The Cinema of Clint Eastwood by David Sterritt Pdf

He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful actor-director-producer in American film history. This book examines the major elements of his career, focusing primarily on his work as a director but also exploring the evolution of his acting style, his long association with screen violence, his interest in jazz, and the political views - sometimes hotly controversial - reflected in his films and public statements. Especially fascinating is the pivotal question that divides critics and moviegoers to this day: is Eastwood a capable director with a photogenic face, a modest acting talent, and a flair for marketing his image? Or is he a true cinematic auteur with a distinctive vision of America's history, traditions, and values? From A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby and beyond, The Cinema of Clint Eastwood takes a close-up look at one of the screen's most influential and charismatic stars. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Susan Flynn,Antonia Mackay
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476642468

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Screening American Nostalgia by Susan Flynn,Antonia Mackay Pdf

This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural challenges are played out onscreen and placed within the historical milieu through a nostalgic lens which is tempered by contemporary conservatism. Essays reveal not only the visual catalog of recognizable motifs but also how these are used to temper the uncertainty of contemporary crises. Media covered spans from 1939's Gone with the Wind, to Stranger Things, The Americans, Twin Peaks, the Fallout franchise and more.