Clint Eastwood
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few actors have cast as long a shadow over Hollywood as Clint Eastwood — the man who transformed the squinting gunslinger and the rogue cop into enduring icons of American cinema. Stuart M. Kaminsky's Clint Eastwood presents the candid, on-and-off screen story of the world's #1 male superstar, tracing his unlikely rise from bit-part television cowboy to one of the most bankable and critically respected figures in film history, chronicling the ambition, discipline, and raw screen magnetism that made him a global phenomenon. Kaminsky, a celebrated film scholar and novelist, brings an authoritative and perceptive eye to his subject, situating Eastwood's career within the sweeping cultural shifts of post-war American cinema — from the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to the gritty urban landscapes of Don Siegel's Dirty Harry. The biography argues that Eastwood's genius lies not merely in performance, but in his shrewd control of his own image, a mastery of myth-making that few stars before or since have matched. Packed with photographs and candid revelations, this is an essential portrait of a Hollywood legend that will leave any serious cinephile hungry for more.
Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few actors have cast as long a shadow over Hollywood as Clint Eastwood — the man who transformed the squinting gunslinger and the rogue cop into enduring icons of American cinema. Stuart M. Kaminsky's Clint Eastwood presents the candid, on-and-off screen story of the world's #1 male superstar, tracing his unlikely rise from bit-part television cowboy to one of the most bankable and critically respected figures in film history, chronicling the ambition, discipline, and raw screen magnetism that made him a global phenomenon. Kaminsky, a celebrated film scholar and novelist, brings an authoritative and perceptive eye to his subject, situating Eastwood's career within the sweeping cultural shifts of post-war American cinema — from the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to the gritty urban landscapes of Don Siegel's Dirty Harry. The biography argues that Eastwood's genius lies not merely in performance, but in his shrewd control of his own image, a mastery of myth-making that few stars before or since have matched. Packed with photographs and candid revelations, this is an essential portrait of a Hollywood legend that will leave any serious cinephile hungry for more.