The Cinema Of Clint Eastwood

Author : Bernard Benoliel
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 2866425707

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Masters of Cinema: Clint Eastwood by Bernard Benoliel Pdf

Clint Eastwood (USA, b. 1930) is a veteran among the grand masters of contemporary American cinema, whose rise through the system took a highly unusual form. After playing iconic roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns of the 1960s, he returned to Hollywood and underwent a controversial reincarnation as the ultraviolent cop Harry. In the 1970s Eastwood began to direct and, in the style of the great directors of the past, made masterpieces in genres ranging from the western (Unforgiven, 1992) to film noir (Mystic River, 2003), a war epic (Letters from Iwo Jima, 2006), a jazz bio-pic (Bird, 1988), a melodrama (The Bridges of Madison County, 1995) and a sports picture (Million Dollar Baby, 2004). His most recent film, Invictus, takes Eastwood to South Africa and the historic figure of Nelson Mandela, as he continues to explore the question underlying all his films: can human beings overcome experiences of violence and evil?

Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850711

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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.

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679749912

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Clint Eastwood by Richard Schickel Pdf

"Authoritative . . . highly nuanced . . . gives the reader a palpable sense of Mr. Eastwood's career." --The New York Times From the moment The Man With No Name first fixed the screen with his murderous squint, from the first time audiences heard Dirty Harry Callahan growl "Make my day," Clint Eastwood has been an icon of American manhood in all its coolness and ferocity. But that icon is also an actor of surprising subtlety, a filmmaker of vast intelligence and originality--and an intensely private man who eludes the stereotypes with which his fans and critics try to label him. In this in-depth biography, the distinguished film critic Richard Schickel talks with Eastwood's family, friends, and colleagues--and, above all, with his notoriously reticent subject--to produce a portrait more astute and revealing than any we have ever had. Following Eastwood from his unstable childhood through his turbulent love affairs, assessing films from A Fistful of Dollars to the Oscar-winning The Unforgiven, and locating the subversive streak of rage and solitude that runs through all his work, Clint Eastwood is candid and endlessly fascinating, an unerring closeup of one of our brightest stars. "Exhilarating . . . substantial, insightful, and right." --Newsday

Author : Boris Zmijewsky,Lee Pfeiffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040939899

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The Films of Clint Eastwood by Boris Zmijewsky,Lee Pfeiffer Pdf

Author : Douglas Thompson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781784185749

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Clint Eastwood - The Biography of Cinema's Greatest Ever Star by Douglas Thompson Pdf

Clint Eastwood is a true living legend. For over forty years he has dominated Hollywood and his success both in front of and behind the camera has assured his place in cinema history alongside such superstars as Marlon Brando, John Wayne and Robert De Niro..."Clint" reveals the man behind the myth.Bestselling author Douglas Thompson draws on exclusive interviews with the star, to provide the definitive portrait of Clint Eastwood. From his early days as a jobbing actor on $75 a week to his directorial triumph with "Million Dollar Baby", "Clint" reveals the personal highlights of one of the most celebrated careers in cinema history.

Author : Matt Wanat,Leonard Engel
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780826359537

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The Films of Clint Eastwood by Matt Wanat,Leonard Engel Pdf

The indefatigable Clint Eastwood, the great old man of American film, is still controversial after all these years. Many of the critical essays in this collection focus on Eastwood’s 2014 American Sniper, a particularly controversial film and a devastating personal account of the horrors of war. Additional essays within the collection address his films that deserve more recognition than they have received to date. The chapters vary by topic and identify themes ranging from aging, race, and gender to uses of Western conventions and myth to the subtleties of quieter themes and stylistic choices in Eastwood’s body of cinematic work. As a collection, these essays show that none of these themes account for Eastwood’s entire vision, which is multifaceted and often contradictory, dramatizing complex issues in powerful, character-driven narratives.

Author : Howard Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857710215

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Aim for the Heart by Howard Hughes Pdf

Clint Eastwood is one of the world's most popular action stars, who has matured into a fine American producer-director. Entertaining, illuminating and packed with information, up to and including "The Changeling", this is the first book to cover his full life in the movies, from his beginnings in 1950s B-movies and in TV's "Rawhide" to "Gran Torino" showing how as both actor and filmmaker Eastwood aims for the heart of the drama, whatever the story. Howard Hughes follows Eastwood's craft through over 50 movies. He looks at his launch into superstardom in Sergio Leone's 1960s spaghetti westerns. Back in America, he built on his success as western hero with such films as "High Plains Drifter" and "The Outlaw Josey Wales", winning an Oscar for "Unforgiven" in 1992. He blasted his way through the seventies and eighties as Inspector Harry Francis Callahan, the last hope for law enforcement in San Francisco. He also monkeyed around in two phenomenally popular films with Clyde the orang-utan, which brought tough-guy Eastwood to a whole new audience and made him the biggest box office star of his generation. "Aim for the Heart" also looks at Eastwood's more unusual roles, including "The Beguiled", "The Bridges of Madison County" and "Million Dollar Baby". Since 1970, he has enjoyed parallel success as director-producer of his own Malpaso Productions, with "Bird", "Mystic River" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", demonstrating formidable directing credentials. "Aim for the Heart" covers all Eastwood's movies of many genres in detail, and Eastwood's story is illustrated with film stills, glimpses behind the scenes, and rare poster advertising material. "Aim for the Heart" also includes the most comprehensive credits filmography has ever compiled on Eastwood's work, as star and director.

Author : Bernard Benoliel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 2866425952

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Clint Eastwood by Bernard Benoliel Pdf

Author : Mark Whitman
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032640933

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The Films of Clint Eastwood by Mark Whitman Pdf

Author : Lester D. Friedman,David Desser
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813586045

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Tough Ain't Enough by Lester D. Friedman,David Desser Pdf

Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also remains a controversial figure in the political landscape, often characterized as the most prominent conservative voice in mostly liberal Hollywood. At Eastwood’s late age, his critical success as actor and director, his combative willingness to confront serious cultural issues in his films, and his undeniable talent behind the camera all call for a new and comprehensive study that considers and contextualizes his multiple roles, both on and off screen. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars that explore the actor-director’s extensive career. The result is a far-reaching and nuanced portrait of one of America’s most prolific and thoughtful filmmakers.

Author : John H. Foote
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313352485

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Clint Eastwood by John H. Foote Pdf

Now a two-time Academy Award winner for best director, twice winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for best director, and recipient of countless other critics prizes and nominations in multiple capacities, Clint Eastwood stands alongside Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg as one of the finest directors working in modern cinema. Here, John Foote examines the long, impressive, and unlikely film career of a man who fought against expectations to forge his own way and become one of this generation's finest filmmakers. Each chapter examines a different film, beginning with Play Misty for Me (1971) and High Plains Drifter (1973) and extending to his 21st-century films Space Cowboys (2000), Blood Work (2002), Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), and Changeling (2008). This book is, in the author's own words, a study of how Eastwood managed to quietly get to this level—and a celebration of his gifts as an artist. Eastwood has evolved not only as a director, but also as an actor, a screenwriter, a producer, and a score composer, to become one of the most revered figures in Hollywood. Perhaps it is because he started out in Hollywood with such little influence on the final product that he now demonstrates such a strong desire to collaborate with others and provide help wherever he can. In addition to casting off his reputation as a hack and accumulating two Oscar nominations for Best Actor over the past 15 years, he has guided other actors to no less than three Academy Award wins. The executives love him because he has made them money over the years—occasionally even making one for them in exchange for financial backing on other projects. Critics love him because of the care he takes in creating his films. Audiences love him because he has never lost his sense of entertainment, even as his artistry has matured.

Author : Michael Henry Wilson
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 2866425766

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Eastwood on Eastwood by Michael Henry Wilson Pdf

"A richly illustrated, faithful record of Eastwood’s work, containing film stills and set photographs as well as previously unpublished photographs from his personal collection, dating from his youth and early years as an actor." --Publishers description.

Author : Alessandro Canadè,Alessia Cervini
Publisher : Luigi Pellegrini Editore
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9788881018376

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Clint Eastwood by Alessandro Canadè,Alessia Cervini Pdf

Un nuovo libro su un autore classico. Un libro che affronta in forma imprevista e sorprendente uno dei grandi registi del cinema contemporaneo: Clint Eastwood. Il volume, pubblicato da Pellegrini Editore e curato da Alessandro Canadè e Alessia Cervini, è introdotto da Roberto De Gaetano, che presenta l’articolazione del volume (il primo della serie "Nomi Propri" all’interno della Collana "Frontiere") costruito come un lessico tematico con saggi su "Adozione" "Amicizia" "Icona" "Inattuale" "Perseveranza" "Icona" "Incarnazione" "Fantasma" "Tragico", con contributi tra gli altri di Marcello Walter Bruno, Daniele Dottorini, Alessandra Azzali, Luca Venzi, Bruno Roberti, Alessandro Cappabianca. Quello che ne esce è l’immagine nuova di un autore, guardato sotto il filtro di prospettive eterogenee ma integrate (che giungono fino al suo ultimo film "J. Edgar"), capaci di collocarsi oltre le più usuali etichette, che fanno di Eastwood e del suo cinema uno dei luoghi più intensi per pensare le forme di esistenza nella contemporaneità. Come dice De Gaetano nell’Introduzione: «Eastwood in un esercizio di tessitura simbolica dell’immaginario classico, che ne spiega la sua "inattualità", ci fa vedere all’opera il costituirsi o il dissolversi di un soggetto alle prese con la vita colta nei momenti che mettono alla prova, e dunque che mettono in condizione il soggetto di cambiare o perdersi, fino a morire».

Author : Marc Eliot
Publisher : Crown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Charles R. Hamilton,Allen H. Redmon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476667508

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Clint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma by Charles R. Hamilton,Allen H. Redmon Pdf

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.