Clint Eastwood by Richard Schickel - ISBN: 9780679749912
Paperback
Unmasking the icon: Eastwood’s life, films, and the man within.

Clint Eastwood

A Biography

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  • Paperback

    576 pages

  • Release Date

    21 October 1997

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Summary

Authoritative … highly nuanced … gives the reader a palpable sense of Mr. Eastwood’s career.–The New York Times

From the moment The Man With No Name first fixed the screen with his murderous squint, from the first time audiences heard Dirty Harry Callahan growl “Make my day,” Clint Eastwood has been an icon of American manhood in all its coolness and ferocity. But that icon is also an actor of surprising subtlety, a filmmaker of vast intelligence and originality–and an intensely priva…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780679749912
ISBN-10:0679749918
Author:Richard Schickel
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:576
Release Date:21 October 1997
Weight:459g
Dimensions:201mm x 132mm x 38mm
Series:Vintage Vintage
About The Author

Richard Schickel

Richard Schickel reviewed movies for Life and Time for the same length of time Clint Eastwood starred in them. He authored many books about film and filmmakers, including The Disney Version, the definitive study of Walt Disney and his works; D. W. Griffith- An American Life, which won the British Film Institute Book Prize; and The Men Who Made the Movies, on the directors of the classic Hollywood age. For over two decades, he created television documentaries, primarily about film history. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship and taught film history and criticism at Yale and USC. He lived in Los Angeles.

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