Dirty Harry's America : Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash /

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Street argues that depictions of tough-on-crime character Harry Callahan, in multiple ways and over the course of five films, embodied the growing disagreements with twentieth-century postwar liberal policies that were supposedly promoting moral decay in contemporary American society.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Street, Joe (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Temas:
Dirty Harry films > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States.
Conservatism > United States.
Conservatisme > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Conservatism.
Dirty Harry films.
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Why Dirty Harry matters
  • Before Dirty Harry: making Clint Eastwood
  • The roots of Dirty Harry
  • Dirty Harry: San Francisco in the Nixon era
  • Dirty Harry's sequels and the backlash
  • Callahan's legacy
  • "Dirty" Harry Callahan in American popular culture.

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