New Essays on Clint Eastwood

Name: New Essays on Clint Eastwood
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ISBN: 9781607812074

ISBN-10: 160781207X

ISBN-13: 9781607812074

Edition: 2012

Authors: Leonard Engel, Drucilla Cornell

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New Essays on Clint Eastwood is a companion to Engel’s previous book, Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives. It includes discussion of some of Eastwood’s most recent films as well as his earliest work, and deepens our overall appreciation of his artistry and his growth as an ever more accomplished storyteller. The contributors to this new volume examine Eastwood’s body of work as both actor and director: his portrayal of Rowdy Yates in the television series Rawhide, his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me, his directorial and starring role in Gran Torino, and his recent directorial successes with Hereafter and J. Edgar.A common thread throughout the volume is the respect…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Publication date: 9/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword: Why Do We Turn to Eastwood Now?



Acknowledgments


Introduction: What Is Past, or Passing, or to Come




"Landscape as Moral Destiny": Mythic Reinvention from Rowdy Yates to The Stranger




Thoroughly Modern Eastwood: Male/Female Power Relations in The Beguiled and Play Misty for Me




Clintus and Siegelini: "We've Got a System. Not Much, but We're Fond of It"




Rawhide to Pale Rider. The Maturation of Clint Eastwood




Eastwood's Treatment of the Life of Creativity and Performance in Bronco Billy, Honkytonk Man, White Hunter Black Heart, and Bird




"You Can't Hunt Alone": White Hunter Black Heart




The End of History and America First: How the 1990s Revitalized Clint Eastwood




"A Man of Notoriously Vicious and Intemperate Disposition": Western Noir and the Tenderfoot's Revenge in Unforgiven




A Good Vintage or Damaged Goods? Clint Eastwood and Aging in Hollywood Film




Space, Pace, and Southern Gentility in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil




Mystic River as a Tragic Action




Lies of Our Fathers: Mythology and Artifice in Eastwood's Cinema




Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from two Jima: The Silence of Heroes and the Voice of History a




Gran Torino: Showdown in Detroit, Shrimp Cowboys, and a New Mythology




Invictus: The Master Craftsman as Hagiographer a




Hereafter. Dreaming beyond Our Philosophies




Citizen Hoover: Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar a



Filmography


Contributors


Index