Clint Eastwood: A Cultural ProductionU of Minnesota Press, 1993 - 292 pages This book is a large extent to show concern with the way such images have resonated in and with American culture and history during the last twenty or thirty years.Clint Eastwood and his films are in part because of their popularity and their significance role in this cultural discourse. |
Contents
Genre | 19 |
At the Smithsonian | 55 |
Misogyny | 69 |
Just Entertainment | 85 |
The Opposite of Fascism | 101 |
Amongst Men | 121 |
Who Knows? Maybe It Was You | 137 |
Eastwood Bound | 151 |
Burlesque Body | 173 |
Drugs | 191 |
Performance and Identification | 207 |
The Meaning of Black | 225 |
AuteurFather | 243 |
Coda | 263 |
Bibliography | 283 |
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