Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by: Jackson, Lawrence P.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 299 pages. Hinged by a close reading of four blockbuster films which continue to shape discourses in cinematic arts, American liberalism, the westerns, and race relations today-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Josey Wales, Ride with the Devil, and Django Unchained-Jackson's unique critique flashes on the contradictory symbolic structures at work in these masterpieces. Juxtaposing the films' motifs, tropes, and hidden Black figures with historicist readings lays bare the containment strategies of the 1970s and beyond used to stymie civil rights progress and racial equity in the United States. Clean copy.
 "Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West by: Jackson, Lawrence P.")
