{"product_id":"9780063251021-retail-clint-the-man-and-the-movies","title":"Clint: The Man and the Movies","description":"  From the acclaimed film critic and  New York Times  bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in the history of the medium, and an indelible fixture of American culture. C-L-I-N-T. In that short, sharp syllable, there is an emblem of American manhood and morality and sheer bloody-minded will, for better and worse, on screen and off, for more than sixty years. Whether he's holding a pistol, an orangutan, or a boxing glove; whether he's facing down bad guys on a western street (Old West or new, no matter); staring through the lens of a camera; or accepting one of his thirteen Oscars (including two for Best Picture); he is as blunt, curt, and solid as his name, a star of the old school stripe  and  one of the most prolific and accomplished directors of his time, a man of rock and iron and brute force: Clint.  To tell the story of Clint Eastwood is to tell the story of nearly a century of American culture. No Hollywood figure so completely and complexly represents the cultural and political climates of contemporary America. At age ninety-four, he has lived a tumultuous century and embodied much of his time and many of its contradictions.  We picture him most immediately as he has appeared to us on screen: squinting through cigarillo smoke in  A Fistful of Dollars  or  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ; imposing rough justice at the point of a .44 Magnum in  Dirty Harry ; sowing moral vengeance in  The Outlaw Josey Wales  or  Pale Rider ;   abandoning farming for murder-for-hire in  Unforgiven ; grudgingly training a woman boxer in  Million Dollar Baby ; standing up for his neighbors despite his racism toward them in  Gran Torino . But those are roles, however well-cast and convincing, and they are two-dimensional in comparison to the whole life. The reality of Clint Eastwood is far more rich, knotty, and absorbing-a saga of cunning, determination, and conquest, a great American story about a man ascending to the Hollywood pantheon while keeping a gimlet eye on its ways and habits and one foot firmly planted outside its door. ","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49129844637915,"sku":"9780063251021-RETAIL","price":50.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/cc7ad130-bef8-49a5-98e3-3964216f9acb.jpg?v=1786557943","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780063251021-retail-clint-the-man-and-the-movies","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}