Dirty Harry's America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash

by Joe Street

Book Overview

"Street provides a crucial critical and cultural service by not only studying Eastwood's individual films in sharp detail but also by providing a close and serious analysis of the cultural and historic times of the films."--Sam B. Girgus, author of Clint Eastwood's America

"By far the most comprehensive, sustained, and detailed discussion of the Dirty Harry phenomenon. A thorough and engaging account of how a fictitious renegade cop...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813061679
• ISBN13: 9780813061672
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"