Dirty Harry's America : Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash / Joe Street.
Dirty Harry's America : Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash / Joe Street.
Dirty Harry's America : Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash / Joe Street.
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Publisher
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Date
Copyright 2016.
Call Numbers
G 2015/4680
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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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Publisher
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Place of Publication
Florida
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
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.
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Dirty Harry's America : Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash / Joe Street.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-260) and index.
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G 2015/4680
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74VKz6Ny8jKb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKz6Ny8jKb
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ISBN
0813061679 (hbk)
9780813061672 (hbk)
DDC
791.4375
MMS ID
991023385209702626
