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Featuring rare, outstanding additional content, ClintEastwood: Icon is the definitive collection of film art and materialrepresenting Clint Eastwood's legendary career as seen through the originaliconic artwork.
Clint Eastwood is a nameless vigilante, a vengefuldetective, a bare-knuckle boxer, a Secret Service agent, and countless otherdefinitive screen archetypes now embedded in our shared pop-cultureconsciousness. However you define him, Clint Eastwood has a powerful andextremely recognizable image that exists as something beyond the narratives ofhis films.
Featuring a wealth of additional content, this newedition of Clint Eastwood: Icon presents an unprecedented collection of film artand rare material surrounding the legendary actor. This comprehensive trovegathers together poster art, lobby cards, standees, Italian Spaghetti WesternPremier posters, studio ads, and esoteric film memorabilia from around theworld. From his early roles as the nameless gunslinger in Sergio Leone'sspaghetti Westerns, to the vigilante films of the 1970s and 1980s, through hisdirectorial roles and latest releases, Clint Eastwood: Icon captures thepowerful presence that turned Eastwood into the definitive Americanhero.
David Frangioni is a music businessman, producer,technologist and musician. He has written for Rolling Stone, Fortune, and RobbReport. Frangioni is considered one of the world's most prominent andknowledgeable collectors of Clint Eastwood memorabilia, with more than 10,000items in his ever-growing collection. He is the founder of Frangioni Foundation,a non-profit dedicated to inspiring children through drumhealing.
Thomas Schatz is the Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Chairof the Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin,and is the Executive Director of the University of Texas Film Institute. Anexpert on Hollywood films and filmmaking, he has written four books on thesubject and contributes to publications such as the The New York Times, the LosAngeles Times, and Film Quarterly.
