Foreword by Drucilla Cornell
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “Landscape as Moral Destiny”: Mythic Reinvention from Rowdy Yates to the Stranger - Robert Smart
2. Thoroughly Modern Eastwood: Male/Female Power Relations in The Beguiled and Play Misty for Me - Brett Westbrook
3. Clintus and Siegelini: “We've Got a System. Not Much, but We're Fond of It." - Mike Smrtic and Matt Wanat
4. Rawhide to Pale Rider: The Maturation of Clint Eastwood - Edward Rielly
5. Eastwood's Treatment of the Life of Creativity and Performance in Bronco Billy, Honkytonk Man, White Hunter Black Heart, and Bird - Dennis Rothermel
6. “You Can’t Hunt Alone”: White Hunter Black Heart - Richard Hutson
7. The End of History and America First: How the 1990s Revitalized Clint Eastwood - Craig Rinne
8. A Man of Notoriously Vicious and Intemperate Disposition: Western Noir and the Tenderfoot’s Revenge in Unforgiven - Stanley Orr
9. A Good Vintage or Damaged Goods?: Clint Eastwood and Aging in Hollywood Film - Philippa Gates
10. Space, Pace, and Southern Gentility in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Brad Klypchak
11. Mystic River as a Tragic Action - Robert Merrill and John L. Simons
12. Lies of Our Fathers: Mythology and Artifice in Eastwood’s Cinema - William Beard
13. Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima: The Silence of Heroes and the Voice of History - John M. Gourlie
14. Gran Torino: Showdown in Detroit, Shrimp Cowboys, and A New Mythology - John M. Gourlie and Leonard Engel
15. Invictus: The Master Craftsman as Hagiographer - Raymond Foery
16. Hereafter: Dreaming beyond Our Philosophies - John M. Gourlie
17. Postscript, “Citizen Hoover: Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar” - Richard Hutson and Kathleen Moran
Filmography
Contributors
Index
