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Synopsis
A biography of the American actor and film celebrity, written by a well-known Hollywood critic, and supplemented with an extensive bibliography of articles written about Eastwood during the course of his long career in television and movies, as well as an extensive filmography.,
| Size | | Length: | 557 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 7.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 35.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: ""What an American was Clint Eastwood," Norman Mailer wrote as he worked his way toward the peroration of a 1983 Sunday supplement article on him--as usual for Mailer on these occasions, a blend of interview and meditation on his own and his subject's celebrity."
Industry Reviews
"Mr. Schickel knows how to use his prodigious knowledge of cinematic history to create portraits of film artists that illuminate their individual talents while at the same time situating them within a social and esthetic context. In this volume, he does an authoritative job of tracing Mr. Eastwood's development as an actor and director, and he also gives the reader a highly nuanced appreciation of Mr. Eastwood's iconographic role as a symbol of American manhood and American individualism as it has evolved in the second half of the 20th century."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (11/20/1996)
"Schickel has been drawn in by Eastwood, compelled to fill all kinds of sad, moody, spaces. The author doesn't simply idolize his subject, he feels he needs to cover for Eastwood's failures and rationalizations the way one might for an absent or inadequate father. Above all, he wants us to see the star as misunderstood, under unfair attack from all sides--the women who demand something more than his sexual favors, the liberal media with its shrill feminists and snobby elitists."
Slate - David S. Edelstein (12/16/1996)
"Entertaining and penetrating...a superlative biography [that[ casts new light on Eastwood as actor, artist and man."
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