Dirty Harry's America : Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash / / Joe Street [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Street Joe
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, FL : , : University Press of Florida, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 791.4375
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States; Conservatism - United States; Dirty Harry (Fictitious character)
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Why Dirty Harry matters -- Before Dirty Harry: making Clint Eastwood -- The roots of Dirty Harry -- Dirty Harry: San Francisco in the Nixon era -- Dirty Harry's sequels and the backlash -- Callahan's legacy -- "Dirty" Harry Callahan in American popular culture.
• Sommario/riassunto: Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry became the prototype for a new kind of movie cop-an antihero in pursuit of his own vision of justice. The Dirty Harry series helped cement Eastwood and his character, Harry Callahan, as central figures in 1970s and 1980s Hollywood cinema. In this book, Joe Street argues that the series sheds critical light on the culture and politics of the post-1960s era and locates San Francisco as the symbolic cultural battleground of the time. Street maintains that through referencing real events and political struggles, the films themselves became active participants in the culture wars, paying particular attention to the films' representation of crime, family and community, sexuality, and race.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dirty Harry's America
• ISBN: 0-8130-5119-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910151648303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II