Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West True stories *Coverage expanded from elementary and

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Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West True stories *Coverage expanded from elementary andHow did the American western feature film genre rebrand itself in the late seventies and respond to the fury of global and domestic political affairs? In Hold It Real Still, Lawrence Jackson examines Clint Eastwood's influence on the western film while also exploring how that genre continues to operate into the twenty first century as an ideological channel for ideas about race and imperialism. Jackson argues that the western genre pivoted from an