The Ethical Vision of Clint Eastwood

Vaux, Sara Anson

ISBN 10 : 0802862950 ISBN 13 : 9780802862952

Editeur : William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Vaux Sara Anson

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood icon, with five Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, and numerous other accolades for his work as an actor, director, producer, and composer. Yet because he rose to fame in ""spaghetti westerns"" and Dirty Harry shoot-em-ups, few critics have ventured to explore Eastwood's philosophical, ethical, and artistic agenda as an intellectual filmmaker.

Addressing this void, film scholar Sara Anson Vaux analyzes fifteen of Eastwood's best-known films from narrative, artistic, and thematic perspectives. She traces the nuanced development of Eastwood's unfolding moral vision over a forty-year continuum, showing how this vision has grown more sophisticated even as many of the motifs expressing it -- justice, confession, war and peace, the gathering, the search for a perfect world -- have remained the same.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sara Anson Vaux is director of the Office of Fellowships at Northwestern University, where she also teaches film in the religious studies department. Her other books include Finding Meaning at the Movies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0802862950
• ISBN 13: 9780802862952
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 259