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Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry became the prototype for a new kind of movie cop - an antihero in pursuit of his own vision of justice. In Dirty Harry's America, Joe Street argues that the movies shed critical light on the culture and politics of the post-1960s era and locates San Francisco as the symbolic cultural battleground of the time.

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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 became an enduring icon of the angry conservative backlash that sought to halt 1960s liberalism in its tracks."" - Nick Heffernan, author of Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics

Dirty Harrys America Clint Eastwood Harry

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      Publisher MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida
      Published 4/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780813064710
      978-0813064710
      ISBN-10 0813064716
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      Political ideologies and movements Popular culture

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry became the prototype for a new kind of movie cop - an antihero in pursuit of his own vision of justice. In Dirty Harry's America, Joe Street argues that the movies shed critical light on the culture and politics of the post-1960s era and locates San Francisco as the symbolic cultural battleground of the time.

      Trade Review
      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 became an enduring icon of the angry conservative backlash that sought to halt 1960s liberalism in its tracks."" - Nick Heffernan, author of Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics

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