Research Catalog

Title

Clint Eastwood, actor and director : new perspectives / edited by Leonard Engel.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Engel, Leonard, 1936-

Description

viii, 269 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In his recent films - Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby - Clint Eastwood has revealed himself as a greater figure than moviegoers imagined him to be. The contributors to this volume revisit and examine his career as an actor and director, and are part of the growing critical evaluation of Eastwood's films. A common thread among the essays is respect for his cinematic storytelling. They examine how he put his individual stamp on particular genres, and extend and enrich our understanding of his varied achievements."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Eastwood, Clint, 1930- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes filmograpy: p. 251-253.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Feminism and the limits of genre in Fistful of dollars and The Outlaw Josey Wales / Brett Westbrook -- A fistful of anarchy: Clint Eastwood's characters in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy and in his four "own" westerns / David Cremean -- Irony as absolution / Matt Wanat -- "One hang, we all hang": High plains drifter / Richard Hutson -- Mocking success in Every which way but loose / Leger Grindon -- Subverting Shane: ambiguities in Eastwood's politics in Fistful of dollars, High plains drifter, and Pale rider / Stephen McVeigh -- "All on accounta pullin' a trigger": violence, the media, and the historical contextualization of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven / Brad Klypchak -- The machinery of violence: Clint Eastwood talks about Unforgiven / John C. Tibbetts -- Clint Eastwood's western films and the evolving mythic hero / Fred Erisman -- Narrative pacing and the eye of the other in The Bridges of Madison County / Raymond Foery -- The old man and the C: masculinity and age in the films of Clint Eastwood / Walter Metz -- Mystical moral miasma in Mystic River / Dennis Rothermel -- Million dollar baby: the deep heart's core / John M. Gourlie.

ISBN

• 9780874809008 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0874809002 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007031372

OCLC

• 148832475
• SCSB-11831040

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library