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Clint Eastwood's America
Sam B. Girgus
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Medienwissenschaft
Beschreibung
The steady rise of Clint Eastwood's career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona. Eastwood responds to a national yearning for a vision of individual action and initiative, personal responsibility, and potential for renewal. An iconic director and star for his westerns, urban thrillers, and adventure stories, Eastwood has taken film art to new horizons of meaning in a series of masterpieces that engage the ethical and moral consciousness of our times, including Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Mystic River. He revolutionized the war film with the unprecedented achievement of filming the opposing sides of the same historic battle in Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, using this saga to present a sharply critical representation of the new America that emerged out of the war, a society of images and spectacles. This timely examination of Clint Eastwood's oeuvre against the backdrop of contemporary America will be fascinating reading for students of film and popular culture, as well as readers with interests in Eastwood's work, American film and culture.
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''No other book on Clint Eastwood comes close to what Sam Girgusaccomplishes here in assessing Eastwood's remarkable - andwholly unexpected - maturation as a film-maker and narrativeartist, and his increasingly complex and sophisticated treatment ofsocial, ethical, interpersonal, and gender-related issues. Indeed,Girgus builds a case for Eastwood's emergence since the early1990s as America's consummate auteur - a film-maker who hastaken far greater risks and has made far more significant andmemorable films over the past two decades than any other Hollywooddirector.''
''This book marks a long-awaited appreciation of the complexityof Eastwood's directorial and moral vision. Starting withUnforgiven, Eastwood's main characters have been engaged in asearch for meaning, called upon by the voice of the other toperform a ritual sacrifice on behalf of that other that therebydelivers to the hero a sense of purpose. Invoking Levinas andKristeva, Girgus demonstrates the evolution of the Eastwood herofrom self-sufficient loner to a being entangled in relationships,who challenges the ethical and moral order of thinking and livingin today's uncertain world.''
''Girgus sharpens his ongoing scholarship on cinema and ethicswith this thought-provoking analysis of the films of ClintEastwood. Eastwood has evolved into arguably the most conflictedand divisive icon in American cinema, reflecting an oceanic careerthat rocks with waves of various social, political, and culturalinfluences and positions. In a historical moment when Hollywood andAmerican society at large are in the throes of rupture andself-redefinition, Girgus offers us a timely and crucial survey ofthe ultimate symbol of what is best and worst about a nationalideology and its film culture.''
''No other book on Clint Eastwood comes close to what Sam Girgusaccomplishes here in assessing Eastwood's remarkable - andwholly unexpected - maturation as a film-maker and narrativeartist, and his increasingly complex and sophisticated treatment ofsocial, ethical, interpersonal, and gender-related issues. Indeed,Girgus builds a case for Eastwood's emergence since the early1990s as America's consummate auteur - a film-maker whohas taken far greater risks and has made far more significant andmemorable films over the past two decades than any other Hollywooddirector.''
''This book marks a long-awaited appreciation of the complexityof Eastwood's directorial and moral vision. Starting withUnforgiven, Eastwood's main characters have been engaged in asearch for meaning, called upon by the voice of the other toperform a ritual sacrifice on behalf of that other that therebydelivers to the hero a sense of purpose. Invoking Levinas andKristeva, Girgus demonstrates the evolution of the Eastwood herofrom self-sufficient loner to a being entangled in relationships,who challenges the ethical and moral order of thinking and livingin today's uncertain world.''
''Girgus sharpens his ongoing scholarship on cinema and ethicswith this thought-provoking analysis of the films of ClintEastwood. Eastwood has evolved into arguably the most conflictedand divisive icon in American cinema, reflecting an oceanic careerthat rocks with waves of various social, political, and culturalinfluences and positions. In a historical moment when Hollywood andAmerican society at large are in the throes of rupture andself-redefinition, Girgus offers us a timely and crucial survey ofthe ultimate symbol of what is best and worst about a nationalideology and its film culture.''
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Communication & Media Studies, Filmforschung, Medienforschung, Amerikanistik, Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikation u. Medienforschung, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Media Studies, Film Studies