{"product_id":"hold-it-real-still-9781421444130","title":"Hold It Real Still","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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 Walesa 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 p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter One. Black Representations in the Western\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two. \u003ci\u003eThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly\u003c\/i\u003e and Critique of the Colonial Aftermath\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three. \"That Damn War\": \u003ci\u003eThe Outlaw Josey Wales\u003c\/i\u003e and Reframing the Civil War\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four. \"Hold It Real Still\": Black Containment and Structures of Inequality in \u003ci\u003eThe Outlaw Josey Wales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five. \"Their Slaves, If Any They Have, Are Hereby Declared Free Men\": \u003ci\u003eRide with the Devil \u003c\/i\u003eand the Contraband as Decorative Adjunct\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six. \"I Am That One in Ten Thousand\": \u003ci\u003eDjango Unchained\u003c\/i\u003e and the Black Exceptional State\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven. \"Why Don't They Kill Us?\" \u003ci\u003eDjango Unchained\u003c\/i\u003e and the Politics of Deadly Force\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. The Return of the Native\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408146243927,"sku":"9781421444130","price":33.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421444130.jpg?v=1730501756","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hold-it-real-still-9781421444130","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}