Dirty Harry's America
Subtitle: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash
By: Joe Street
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780813061672
Subjects: Motion pictures; History and criticism; Conservatism; Dirty Harry films
Description: Street argues that depictions of tough-on-crime character Harry Callahan, in multiple ways and over the course of five films, embodied the growing disagreements with twentieth-century postwar liberal policies that were supposedly promoting moral decay in contemporary American society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why Dirty Harry matters; title: Before Dirty Harry: making Clint Eastwood; title: The roots of Dirty Harry; title: Dirty Harry: San Francisco in the Nixon era; title: Dirty Harry's sequels and the backlash; title: Callahan's legacy; title: "Dirty" Harry Callahan in American popular culture.