New essays on Clint Eastwood
By: edited by Leonard Engel ; foreword by Drucilla Cornell
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781607812074
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: A companion to Engel's previous work, Clint Eastwood, actor and director: new perspectives, this volume includes some of the films produced after the first volume was published.

Includes filmography and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: why do we turn to Eastwood now? / Drucilla Cornell; title: Introduction: what is past, or passing, or to come / John M. Gourlie and Leonard Engel; title: "Landscape as moral destiny": mythic reinvention from Rowdy Yates to The stranger / Robert Smart; title: Thoroughly modern Eastwood: male/female power relations in Tthe beguiled and Play misty for me / Brett Westbrook; title: Clintus and Siegelini: "we've got a system. not much, but we're fond of it" / Mike Smrtic and Matt Wanat; title: Rawhide to Pale rider: the maturation of Clint Eastwood / Edward Rielly; title: Eastwood's treatment of the life of creativity and performance in Bronco Billy, Honkytonk man, White hunter black heart, and Bird / Dennis Rothermel; title: "You can't hunt alone": White hunter black heart / Richard Hutson; title: The end of history and America first: how the 1990s revitalized Clint Eastwood / Craig Rinne; title: "A man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition": western noir and the tenderfoot's revenge in Unforgiven / Stanley Orr; title: A good vintage or damaged goods? Clint Eastwood and aging in Hollywood film / Philippa Gates; title: Space, pace, and southern gentility in Midnight in the garden of good and evil  / Brad Klypchak; title: Mystic river as a tragic action / Robert Merrill and John L. Simons; title: Lies of our fathers: mythology and artifice in Eastwood's cinema / William Beard; title: Eastwood's Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima: the silence of heroes and the voice of history / John M. Gourlie; title: Gran Torino: showdown in Detroit, shrimp cowboys, and a new mythology / John M. Gourlie and Leonard Engel; title: Invictus: the master craftsman as hagiographer / Raymond Foery; title: Hereafter: dreaming beyond our philosophies /  John M. Gourlie; title: Citizen Hoover: Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar / Kathleen Moran and Richard Hutson; title: Filmography.