| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Why Dirty Harry matters -- Before Dirty Harry: making Clint Eastwood -- The roots of Dirty Harry -- Dirty Harry: San Francisco in the Nixon era -- Dirty Harry's sequels and the backlash -- Callahan's legacy -- "Dirty" Harry Callahan in American popular culture. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dirty Harry films -- History and criticism.
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Dirty Harry films. |
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects. |
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United States. |
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Conservatism -- United States.
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Conservatism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813061672 0813061679 (DLC) 2015035905 (OCoLC)905685851 |
| ISBN |
9780813051192 (electronic book) |
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0813051193 (electronic book) |
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9780813055732 (electronic book) |
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0813055733 (electronic book) |
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9780813061672 |
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0813061679 |
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