6. “Heroes Are Something We Create”: The Biopics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. The Teller and the Tale: An Introduction to the Films of Clint Eastwood 1
4. Part I. Crosscurrents
5. 2 “I Don’t Want Nobody Belonging to Me”: Riding the Post- Leone Western 19
6. 3. “God/Country/Family”: The Military Movies 36
7. 4. “A Man’s Got to Know His Limitations”: The Cop Films from Nixon through Reagan 55
8. 5. “I’m Not So Tough”: Melodrama and Performance in the Later Films 75
9. 6. “Heroes Are Something We Create”: The Biopics 94
10. Part II. Controversies
11. 7. “I Am a Camera”: The Performative Gaze 117
12. 8. “You Ain’t Ugly like Me; It’s Just That We Both Got Scars”: Women in Eastwood’s Films 134
13. 9. “I Know I’m as Blind as a Slab of Concrete, but I’m Not Helpless”: The Aging Action Hero 152
14. 10. “Seems like We Can’t Trust the White Man”: The Theater of Race 169
15. 11. Play Music for Me: The Film Scores 190
16. Acknowledgments 211
17. Notes on Contributors 213
18. Index 217