Clint Eastwood: A Biography - Hardcover

Schickel, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679429743 ISBN 13: 9780679429746

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

Synopsis

The first major biography of the critically acclaimed actor and director draws on exclusive interviews with Eastwood, his friends, and colleagues to chronicle his rise to success in Hollywood, his sometimes turbulent personal life, and his complex, elusive personality. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

In 1992, when Unforgiven won director/star Eastwood the critical respect that had eluded him for a quarter-century, film critic Schickel was already a friend of 15 years. Their relationship, and a series of in-depth interviews conducted over five years, gives this biography a pleasing intimacy. Schickel believes Eastwood "has taken the presentation of the heroic male into country he has not previously ridden"; he makes a strong case for that idea in an admiring(but not fawning) book that lays the foundation for more objective works in the future. --Christine Buttery

About the Author:

Richard Schickel has been reviewing movies--first for Life, then for Time--for exactly as long as Clint Eastwood has been starring in them. He is the author of many books about film and filmmakers, among them The Disney Version, the definitive study of Walt Disney and his works; D. W. Griffith: An American Life, which won the British Film Institute Book Prize; and The Men Who Made the Movies, on the directors of the classic Hollywood age. For more than two decades he has been making television documentaries, mainly about the history of movies. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and has taught film history and criticism at Yale and USC. He lives in Los Angeles.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679429743
• ISBN 13: 9780679429746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 557