Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated - Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chronology -- Filmography -- No Tumbleweed Ties for Clint / Rex Reed / 1971 -- Eastwood on Eastwood / Stuart M. Kaminsky / 1971 -- Eastwood Direction / Richard Thompson, Tim Hunter / 1976-77 -- Director Clint Eastwood: Attention to Detail and Involvement for the Audience / Ric Gentry / 1980 -- Eastwood: An Auteur to Reckon With / Charles Champlin / 1981 -- Cop on a Hot Tightrope / David Thomson / 1984 -- Whether I Succeed or Fail, I Don't Want to Owe It to Anyone but Myself: From Play Misty for Me to Honkytonk Man / Michael Henry Wilson / 1984 -- Clint Eastwood: The Rolling Stone Interview / Tim Cahill / 1985 -- Eastwood on Eastwood / Christopher Frayling / ca. 1985 -- Flight of Fancy / Nat Hentoff / 1988 -- Interview with Clint Eastwood / Michel Ciment / 1990 -- Interview with Clint Eastwood / Thierry Jousse, Camille Nevers / 1992 -- Any Which Way He Can / Peter Biskind / 1993 -- America on the Brink of the Void / Henri Behar / 1993 -- Q & A with a Western Icon / Jerry Roberts / 1995 -- Truth, Like Art, Is in the Eyes of the Beholder: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The Bridges of Madison County / Michael Henry Wilson / 1998 -- A Conversation with Clint Eastwood about Mystic River / Charlie Rose / 2003 -- Mystic River: Eastwood, without Anger or Forgiveness / Samuel Blumenfeld / 2003 -- Staying Power / Amy Taubin / 2005 -- Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima / Terry Gross / 2007 -- The Quiet American / Geoff Andrew / 2008 -- Do You Feel Lucky, Monk? / Nick Tosches / 2008 -- Clint Eastwood, America's Director: The Searcher / Scott Foundas / 2008 -- Eastwood on the Pitch: At Seventy-Nine, Clint Tackles Mandela in Invictus / Scott Foundas / 2009 -- Interview with Clint Eastwood: First, Believe in Yourself / Michael Henry Wilson / 2010 -- With J. Edgar, Eastwood Again Flexes His Freedom / Scott Bowles / 2011 -- For Further Reading -- Index. Publisher Marketing: Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other dramatic star has directed himself so often. He is also one of the most prolific active directors, with thirty-three features to his credit since 1971. As a star, he is often recalled primarily for two early roles--the "Man with No Name" of three European-made Westerns, and the uncompromising cop "Dirty" Harry Callahan. But on his own as a director, Eastwood has steered a remarkable course. A film industry insider who works through the established Hollywood system and respects its traditions, he remains an outsider by steadfastly refusing to heed cultural and aesthetic trends in film production and film style. His films as director have examined an eclectic variety of themes, ranging from the artist's life to the nature of heroism, while frequently calling into question the ethos of masculinity and his own star image. Yet they have remained accessible to a popular audience worldwide. With two Best Director and two Best Picture Oscars to his credit, Eastwood now ranks among the most highly honored living filmmakers. These interviews range over the more than four decades of Eastwood's directorial career, with an emphasis on practical filmmaking issues and his philosophy as a filmmaker. Nearly a third are from European sources--several appearing here in English for the first time. Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Eastwood, Clint Quincy Delight Jones, Jr., known to his friends as "Q," is the most prolific individual music producer and creative force in American popular culture. He is the visionary behind Thriller and Michael Jackson's solo career, the compositional master of more than 33 film scores, the patron producer of Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith, the founder and CEO of Qwest Records and Broadcasting, a platinum selling musician, and the all time Grammy nominee. As a paragon humanitarian he was the major supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Operation Breadbasket, a founding member of the Institute for Black American Music and the Black Arts Festival, and is creator of the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation, which works to build homes in Africa and educate children in global conflict zones. Jones currently resides in Los Angeles and at the age of 74 works tirelessly as a versatile performer, producer, philanthropist, and impresario. Quincy Jones' talents are legendary, his compassion universal, and his life too much for words. Preface by Maya AngelouForeword by Clint EastwoodIntroduction by BonoContributor Bio:  Kapsis, Robert E Robert E. Kapsis is professor of sociology and film studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of "Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation" and editor of several volumes in the Conversations with Filmmakers Series. Contributor Bio:  Coblentz, Kathie Kathie Coblentz is a rare materials cataloguer at the New York Public Library. She also co-edited (with Robert E. Kapsis) "Woody Allen: Interviews" (University Press of Mississippi).