New book release - Clint Eastwood – Una storia del cinema

 

Clint Eastwood – Una storia del cinema

Author: Roberto Lasagna

 

Country: Italy

Publisher: Weird Book

Language: Italian

Pages: 196

ISBN: 979-12-81603-30-1

Available: May 2, 2025

 

The faces of Clint Eastwood in a book that traces the cinematic challenges of the interpreter, director, producer and musician known as the last great classic of cinema.

Clint Eastwood The critic Roberto Lasagna accompanies us in the rediscovery of an artistic path that is also a history of the transformations of cinema, between the metamorphoses of an American protagonist who lives in Europe the meeting with Sergio Leone – a director destined to change the rules of the Western – and who returns to America to help refound, thanks to the experience with directors such as Don Siegel, the viewer's relationship with the legend, soon getting behind the camera to give life to films that are always personal and at auteur peaks. Clint Eastwood's is a universe of lonely individuals, often in struggle with the system, which the book traces in every single feature film of which Eastwood is from time to time the interpreter and often also the man behind the camera.

From the uncomfortable and intransigent positions of the famous policemen and gunslingers played by Eastwood to the pages of an auteur cinema that has offered masterpieces such as The Unforgiven or Mystic River, the book Clint Eastwood. A History of Cinema is the compelling portrait of an actor who wanted to become a director and knew how to do it in the most authentic way by becoming a producer and influencing the history of American cinema like few others by offering a bitter, disenchanted and very human gaze that continues to question us on essential aspects of existence. Sacrifice, revenge, violence, social redemption, forgiveness, the tragic nature of war and conflicts, social integration and great portraits of individuals among the stars or on the abyss, reflections on ethical and political themes, on life and death, are among the many aspects that concern one of the most intense and multifaceted filmographies of contemporary cinema.

With a preface by Lapo Gresleri, a reflection by Saverio Francesco Marzaduri on Eastwood's directorial beginnings, an intervention by Michele Caricola dedicated to Sondra Locke, artistic and life companion of the filmmaker, and with an in-depth study of Eastwood as a musician (edited by Roberto Pugliese). Cover by Giorgio Finamore.