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- Title
Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by Lawrence P. Jackson (review).
- Authors
Bryan Jr., Jimmy L.
- Abstract
Lawrence P. Jackson's book, "Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West," explores how Western films of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries blurred the Black presence in order to reaffirm white paternalism and imperialism. Jackson argues that Clint Eastwood's film, "The Outlaw Josey Wales," played a significant role in this project by placing Black characters in the background and conflating the US defeat in Vietnam with the southern defeat during the Civil War. Jackson also examines other Civil War-era Westerns, such as "Ride with the Devil" and "Django Unchained," and how they perpetuated a color-blind logic that sentimentalized the Civil War as a southern white tragedy rather than a triumph of Black liberation. Overall, Jackson demonstrates how these films influenced culture and ideology, particularly in relation to their contemporary political climates.
- Subjects
VIETNAM; RACE; DJANGO Unchained (Film); EASTWOOD, Clint, 1930-; WESTERN films; CIVIL war; TWENTY-first century; COLOR blindness
- Publication
Western American Literature, 2023, Vol 58, Issue 3, p284
- ISSN
0043-3462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wal.2023.a912281