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Dirty Harry's America

Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash

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Dirty Harry's America
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An edition of Dirty Harry's America (2016)

Dirty Harry's America

Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash

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  • 1 Want to read

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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Language
English
Pages
264

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Subjects

Motion pictures, History and criticism, Conservatism, Dirty Harry films, Motion pictures, political aspects

Places

United States

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Cover of: Dirty Harry's America
Dirty Harry's America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash
Apr 03, 2018, University Press of Florida
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Cover of: Dirty Harry's America
Dirty Harry's America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash
2016, University Press of Florida
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Dirty Harry's America
Dirty Harry's America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash
2016
in English
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-260) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/75
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.D54 S87 2016, PN1995.9.D54 S87 201

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 264 pages
Number of pages
264

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27200063M
ISBN 10
0813061679
ISBN 13
9780813061672
LCCN
2015035905
OCLC/WorldCat
905685851

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