Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 252 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857710214
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0857730479
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144167618X
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1845119029
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9780755697366
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9781845119027
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9780857710215
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9780857730473
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9781441676184
Content:
Clint Eastwood is one of the world's most popular action stars, who has matured into a fine American producer-director. Entertaining, illuminating and packed with information, up to and including "The Changeling", this is the first book to cover his full life in the movies, from his beginnings in 1950s B-movies and in TV's "Rawhide" to "Gran Torino" showing how as both actor and filmmaker Eastwood aims for the heart of the drama, whatever the story. Howard Hughes follows Eastwood's craft through over 50 movies. He looks at his launch into superstardom in Sergio Le
Content:
Preface : Aim for the art -- Acknowledgements -- Universal casting : the early films -- Ridin' easy : Rawhide -- pt. 1. The westerns -- A fistful of dollars (1964) -- For a few dollars more (1965) -- The good, the bad and the ugly (1966) -- Hang 'em high (1968) -- Two mules for Sister Sara (1970) -- Joe Kidd (1972) -- High plains drifter (1973) -- The outlaw Josey Wales (1976) -- Pale Rider (1985) -- Unforgiven (1992) -- pt. 2. The cops -- Coogan's bluff (1968) -- Dirty Harry (1971) -- Magnum force (1973) -- The enforcer (1976) -- The gauntlet (1977) -- Sudden impact (1983) -- Tightrope (1984) -- City heat (1984) -- The dead pool (1988) -- The rookie (1990) -- In the line of fire (1993) -- A perfect world (1993) -- pt. 3. The lovers -- The witches (1967) -- Paint your wagon (1968) -- The beguiled (1971) -- Play Misty for me (1971) -- Breezy (1973) -- The bridges of Madison County (1995) -- pt. 4. The comedies -- Every which way but loose (1978) -- Bronco Billy (1980) -- Any which way you can (1980) -- Pink Cadillac (1989) -- pt. 5. The dramas -- Honkytonk man (1982) -- Bird (1988) -- White hunter black heart (1990) -- Midnight in the garden of good and evil (1997) -- Space cowboys (2000) -- Mystic river (2003) -- Million dollar baby (2004) -- pt. 6. The thrillers -- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) -- The Eiger sanction (1975) -- Escape from Alcatraz (1979) -- Absolute power (1996) -- True crime (1999) -- Blood work (2002) -- pt. 7. The war movies -- Where eagles dare (1968) -- Kelly's heroes (1970) -- Firefox (1982) -- Heartbreak ridge (1986) -- Flags of our fathers (2006)/Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) -- Epilogue -- Eastwood filmography.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index -- "Eastwood filmography": pages 215-235
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Also available in print.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845119027
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hughes, Howard Aim for the heart London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755697366
