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Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West

Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West

Jackson, Lawrence P.

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Film StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 1421444135
ISBN13: 9781421444130
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Sep 20 2022
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

How did the American western feature film genre rebrand itself in the late seventies and respond to the fury of global and domestic political affairs?

In Hold It Real Still, Lawrence Jackson examines Clint Eastwood's influence on the western film while also exploring how that genre continues to operate into the twenty-first century as an ideological channel for ideas about race and imperialism. Jackson argues that the western genre pivoted from an initial doctrine of racial liberalism, albeit a clumsy one, during the John Wayne years to a motile agenda of substitution, exclusion, and false equivalency during the Clint Eastwood period. The book traces how Eastwood, an actor first associated with the avant-garde, anti-colonialist discourse of spaghetti western cinema, reversed himself in the second half of the 1970s with The Outlaw Josey Wales--a film that had at its heart the fantasy of Black erasure from American life. Jackson situates Eastwood's work as a response to massive social and political upheavals in America: defeat in Vietnam, riots in northern cities, the civil rights movement and associated legislation, and the Great Migration, which made possible a degree of mixed-race public interaction that was impossible even as late as the 1960s.

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