{"product_id":"clint-eastwood-isbn-9780679749912","title":"Clint Eastwood","description":"\"Authoritative . . . highly nuanced . . . gives the reader a palpable sense of Mr. Eastwood's career.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exhilarating . . . substantial, insightful, and right.\"\u003cbr\u003e--NewsdayRichard Schickel has been reviewing movies--first for \u003cb\u003eLife\u003c\/b\u003e, then for \u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e--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 \u003cb\u003eThe Disney Version\u003c\/b\u003e, the definitive study of Walt Disney and his works; \u003cb\u003eD. W. Griffith: An American Life\u003c\/b\u003e, which won the British Film Institute Book Prize; and \u003cb\u003eThe Men Who Made the Movies\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302189289701,"sku":"NP9780679749912","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679749912.jpg?v=1767723832","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/clint-eastwood-isbn-9780679749912","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}