New essays on Clint Eastwood / edited by Leonard Engel ; foreword by Drucilla Cornell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engel, Leonard, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eastwood, Clint, 1930---Criticism and interpretation.

Eastwood, Clint.

Eastwood, Clint, 1930-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 313 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2012]

Summary:

New Eassys on Clint Eastwood is companion to Engel's previous book, on 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 an actor and as a director, including 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 for Eastwood's commitment to cinematic narrative. Collectively, the essays highlight the variety and complexity of Eastwood's themes and his accomplishments throughout a lifetime of endeavors. The examination of his westerns and detective films illustrates how Eastwood left his iconic stamp on those genres, while discussion of his more recent films expounds on his use of family, history, and myth to transcend generic conventions and to project a hard-won vision of a united humanity, beyond ethnic, racial, and national separation and conflict. Cumulatively, the essays remind us of his lifelong devotion to perfecting his artistry and his powers as a storyteller. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword: why do we turn to Eastwood now? / Drucilla Cornell

Introduction: what is past, or passing, or to come / John M. Gourlie and Leonard Engel

"Landscape as moral destiny": mythic reinvention from Rowdy Yates to The stranger / Robert Smart

Thoroughly modern Eastwood: male/female power relations in Tthe beguiled and Play misty for me / Brett Westbrook

Clintus and Siegelini: "we've got a system. not much, but we're fond of it" / Mike Smrtic and Matt Wanat

Rawhide to Pale rider: the maturation of Clint Eastwood / Edward Rielly

Eastwood's treatment of the life of creativity and performance in Bronco Billy, Honkytonk man, White hunter black heart, and Bird / Dennis Rothermel

"You can't hunt alone": White hunter black heart / Richard Hutson

The end of history and America first: how the 1990s revitalized Clint Eastwood / Craig Rinne

"A man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition": western noir and the tenderfoot's revenge in Unforgiven / Stanley Orr

A good vintage or damaged goods? Clint Eastwood and aging in Hollywood film / Philippa Gates

Space, pace, and southern gentility in Midnight in the garden of good and evil / Brad Klypchak

Mystic river as a tragic action / Robert Merrill and John L. Simons

Lies of our fathers: mythology and artifice in Eastwood's cinema / William Beard

Eastwood's Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima: the silence of heroes and the voice of history / John M. Gourlie

Gran Torino: showdown in Detroit, shrimp cowboys, and a new mythology / John M. Gourlie and Leonard Engel

Invictus: the master craftsman as hagiographer / Raymond Foery

Hereafter: dreaming beyond our philosophies / John M. Gourlie

Citizen Hoover: Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar / Kathleen Moran and Richard Hutson

Filmography.

Notes:

A companion to Engel's previous work, Clint Eastwood, actor and director: new perspectives, this volume includes some of the films produced after the first volume was published.

Includes filmography and index.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9781607812074

160781207X

OCLC:

793006236