Dirty Harry's America : Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the conservative backlash / Joe Street.
Street argues that depictions of tough-on-crime character Harry Callahan, in multiple ways and over the course of five films, embodied the growing disagreements with twentieth-century postwar liberal policies that were supposedly promoting moral decay in contemporary American society.
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| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
Street argues that depictions of tough-on-crime character Harry Callahan, in multiple ways and over the course of five films, embodied the growing disagreements with twentieth-century postwar liberal policies that were supposedly promoting moral decay in contemporary American society. |
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| Call Number: | PN1995.9.D54 S87 2016 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813061672 0813061679 |