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Clint Eastwood

A Biography

Richard Schickel

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English
Random House Inc
21 October 1997
""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 private man who eludes the stereotypes with which his fans and critics try to label him.

In this in-depth biography, the distinguished film critic Richard Schickel talks with Eastwood's family, friends, and colleagues--and, above all, with his notoriously reticent subject--to produce a portrait more astute and revealing than any we have ever had.

Following Eastwood from his unstable childhood through his turbulent love affairs, assessing films from A Fistful of Dollars to the Oscar-winning The Unforgiven, and locating the subversive streak of rage and solitude that runs through all his work, Clint Eastwood is candid and endlessly fascinating, an unerring closeup of one of our brightest stars.

""Exhilarating . . . substantial, insightful, and right."" --Newsday
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Imprint:   Random House Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 204mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   448g
ISBN:   9780679749912
ISBN 10:   0679749918
Pages:   570
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Richard Schickel has been reviewing movies--first for <b>Life</b>, then for <b>Time</b>--for exactly as long as Clint Eastwood has been starring in them. He is the author of many books about film and filmmakers, among them <b>The Disney Version</b>, the definitive study of Walt Disney and his works; <b>D. W. Griffith: An American Life</b>, which won the British Film Institute Book Prize; and <b>The Men Who Made the Movies</b>, on the directors of the classic Hollywood age. For more than two decades he has been making television documentaries, mainly about the history of movies. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and has taught film history and criticism at Yale and USC. He lives in Los Angeles.

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