Street provides a crucial critical and cultural service by not only studying Eastwood s individual films in sharp detail but also by providing a close and serious analysis of the cultural and historic times of the films. Sam B. Girgus, author of Clint Eastwood s America By far the most comprehensive, sustained, and detailed discussion of the Dirty Harry phenomenon. A thorough and engaging account of how a fictitious renegade cop became an enduring icon of the angry conservative backlash that sought to halt 1960s liberalism in its tracks. Nick Heffernan, author of Culture,...
Street provides a crucial critical and cultural service by not only studying Eastwood s individual films in sharp detail but also by providing a close...
From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, theater, and literature as political weapons to broaden the struggle and legitimize its appeal.Joe Street places these cultural forms at the center of the civil rights struggle, arguing that the time has come to recognize the extent to which African American history and culture were vital elements of the movement, calculated to broaden the movement's appeal within the larger black community. He places considerable emphasis on Amiri Baraka's interpretation of...
From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, theater, and li...
The Shadow of Selma provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1965 civil rights campaign, the historical memory of the marches, and the continuing relevance of and challenges to the Voting Rights Act. The essays consider Selma not just as a keystone event but, much like Ferguson today, a transformative place: a supposedly unimportant location that became the focal point of epochal historical events.
Contributors to this innovative volume examine the relationship between the memorable figures of the campaign--Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, among others--and the thousands of...
The Shadow of Selma provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1965 civil rights campaign, the historical memory of the marches, and the continuing...
Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry became the prototype for a new kind of movie cop - an antihero in pursuit of his own vision of justice. In Dirty Harry's America, Joe Street argues that the movies shed critical light on the culture and politics of the post-1960s era and locates San Francisco as the symbolic cultural battleground of the time.
Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry became the prototype for a new kind of movie cop - an antihero in pursuit of his own vision of justice. In Dirty Harry's ...
