{"product_id":"clint-eastwood-the-man-and-the-movies","title":"Clint Eastwood — The Man and the Movies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClint: The Man and the Movies―A Comprehensive Biography of Hollywood's Most Iconic Actor-Director\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Shawn Levy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of the Year, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Editors Choice,\" and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Must Read Book\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"This is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for.\" — Sir Christopher Frayling, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSergio Leone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the acclaimed film critic and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in movie history and an imposing icon of American culture for six decades.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This fine-grained and deeply researched unfolding of Eastwood’s life and career . . . reveal[s] fascinating truths about Eastwood’s art, and about cinema itself.” —Richard Brody, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eC-L-I-N-T. That single short, sharp syllable has stood as an emblem of American manhood and morality and sheer bloody-minded will, on-screen and off-screen, for more than sixty years. Whether he’s facing down bad guys on a Western street (Old West or new, no matter), staring through the lens of a camera, or accepting one of his movies' thirteen Oscars (including two for Best Picture), he is as blunt, curt, and solid as his name, a star of the old-school stripe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eone of the most accomplished directors of his time, a man of rock and iron and brute force: Clint.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo read the story of Clint Eastwood is to understand nearly a century of American culture. No Hollywood figure has so completely and complexly stood inside the changing climates of post–World War II America. At age ninety-five, he has lived a tumultuous century and embodied much of his time and many of its contradictions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe picture Clint squinting through cigarillo smoke in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Fistful of Dol­lars \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; imposing rough justice at the point of a .44 Magnum in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDirty Harry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; sowing vengeance in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Outlaw Josey Wales \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePale Rider \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnforgiven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; grudgingly training a woman boxer in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMillion Dollar Baby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and standing up for his neighbors despite his racism in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGran Torino\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Or we feel him present, powerfully, behind the camera, creating complex tales of violence, morality, and humanity, such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMystic River\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLetters from Iwo Jima\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Sniper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. But his roles and his films, however well cast and convincing, are two-dimensional in comparison to his whole life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs Shawn Levy reveals in this masterful biography—the most com­plete portrait yet of Eastwood—the reality is richer, knottier, and more absorbing. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eClint: The Man and the Movies \u003c\/span\u003eis a saga of cunning, determi­nation, and conquest, a story about a man ascending to the Hollywood pantheon while keeping one foot firmly planted outside its door.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e560 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sv Bell Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52052811350298,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/1818\/4474\/files\/165E9AE5-D0D4-47D2-A2C1-BA8BD9A96898.jpg?v=1775701062","url":"https:\/\/svbell.myshopify.com\/products\/clint-eastwood-the-man-and-the-movies","provider":"Sv Bell Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}