Dirty Harry's America : Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash

• Tác giả: Joe Street
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0813061672
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 791.4375 Motion pictures, radio, television
• Mô tả vật lý: xiv, 264 pages, [12] pages of plates : , illustrations ; , 24cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, Nghệ thuật, Hội họa
• ID: 273083
• Chủ đề: 1. Conservatism--United States; 2. Dirty Harry films--History and criticism; 3. Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

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.