Clint Eastwood [electronic resource] : interviews / edited by Robert E. Kapsis and Kathie Coblentz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eastwood, Clint, 1930-

Contributor:

Coblentz, Kathie.

Kapsis, Robert E.

Series:

Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Interviews.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Eastwood, Clint, 1930-.

Eastwood, Clint.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed., rev. and updated.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other dramatic star has directed himself so often. He is also one of the most prolific active directors, with thirty-three features to his credit since 1971. As a star, he is often recalled primarily for two early roles--the ""Man with No Name"" of three European-made Westerns, and the uncompromising cop ""Dirty"" Harry Callahan. But on his own as a director, Eastwood has steered a remarkable course. A

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Filmography; No Tumbleweed Ties for Clint; Eastwood on Eastwood; Eastwood Direction; Director Clint Eastwood: Attention to Detail and Involvement for the Audience; Eastwood: An Auteur to Reckon With; Cop on a Hot Tightrope; "Whether I Succeed or Fail, I Don't Want to Owe It to Anyone but Myself": From Play Misty for Me to Honkytonk Man; Clint Eastwood: The Rolling Stone Interview; Eastwood on Eastwood; Flight of Fancy; Interview with Clint Eastwood; Interview with Clint Eastwood; Any Which Way He Can; America on the Brink of the Void

Q & A with a Western Icon"Truth, Like Art, Is in the Eyes of the Beholder": Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The Bridges of Madison County; A Conversation with Clint Eastwood about Mystic River; Mystic River: Eastwood, without Anger or Forgiveness; Staying Power; Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima; The Quiet American; Do You Feel Lucky, Monk?; Clint Eastwood, America's Director: The Searcher; Eastwood on the Pitch: At Seventy-Nine, Clint Tackles Mandela in Invictus; Interview with Clint Eastwood: First, Believe in Yourself; With J. Edgar, Eastwood Again Flexes His Freedom

For Further ReadingIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes filmography and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-68765-8

1-62103-069-5

OCLC:

818867485