Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity

Index

Index A Perfect World, 4, 96 Butch acting out role of protector, 102 attempt at redemption in Phillip’s eyes, 103 background with Garnett, 101–2 capture, 103–4 history, 100 killing and, 68 as masculine abuser, 103 relationship with Phillip, 98 shooting by Phillip, 103 shooting by police, 104 teaching Phillip moral lesson about stealing, 99 traumatic past, 99, 100 father-son relationship, 120 Garnett, Red background with Butch, 101–2 hubris, 104 introduction, 97 relationship with Gerber, 104–5 sexism of, 97 Gerber, Sally, 97 invasion of home, 96–97 205 kidnapping of boy, 97 night with farmhand, 102–3 penis versus phallus, 99 Phillip Buzz, 99 father and, 99 relationship with Butch, 98 shooting Butch, 103 trick-or-treating, 101 Absolute Power failed fatherhood, 95 McCarty, Mike, initial interaction with Whitney, 106 phallic assertiveness and, 108 rape scene, 105–6 Whitney, Kate, 107 Whitney, Luther, 105–8, 110 abuse of power, 108 abuser, trauma and, 103 Adorno, Theodor, 8 allegory evil and, 16 High Plains Drifter, 17 as retinue of destruction, 16 Arendt, Hannah, 60 206 Index bad man complexity of, 40 Tightrope, 41 beatings, masculine self-restraint and, 11 Benjamin, Jessica, 50–51 The Bonds of Love, 50–51 pornography’s complexity, 45 recognition, 51 sexuality and aggression, 47 the third, 83, 85, 87 violent sexuality, 46 Benjamin, Walter, 16 betrayal, In the Line of Fire, 54, 59 Bingham, Dennis on handcuffed woman (Tightrope), 45 High Plains Drifter, Stranger as phallus, 33 sex and violence connectedness, 47–48 Thibodeaux as peripheral to plot (Tightrope), 50 Tightrope’s contradictions, 49–50 Bird bebop and white people’s attitudes, 177 Chan, 177 depiction of drug use, 179, 180–81 Gillespie, Dizzy, 178 music in film, 179 Parker addictions, 177, 178 decline of, 180 early life, 176 jazz as art form, 180 jazz theories, 179–80 player’s inability to follow, 176–77 suicide attempt, 176 racism, 177–78, 181 white masculinity, 179 black Other, 178 black sidekick, Unforgiven, 38 Blood Work Buddy, 62 death of as baptismal redemption, 64 discovery as murderer, 63–64 identification with McCaleb, 78 sexuality, 65 trauma, 65 double, death of, 64–65 eroticism, 65 first sexual encounter between characters , 63 McCaleb, Terry, 62–63, 65–66 Winston, Jaye, 62 woman’s heart in male, 63 body’s restoration, 11 Bordo, Susan, The Bridges of Madison County Francesca’s first move toward Kincaid , 85 woman’s point of view, 81 Boyd, Jerry, 111 boyhood gone wrong, 4 Breezy, 80 broken narrative, High Plains Drifter as, 11 Bronco Billy, 5–6 Bronfen, Elizabeth, 28–29 brutality against male body, 11 Callahan, Harry. See Dirty Harry castration dwarfism and, 35 fear of, Mystic River, 136–37 shooting in head and, 22 symbolic, 91, 186 threat of, masculine narcissism and, 8 change, self-disgust and, 48 child as center of attention, 92 mother’s desire and, 93 seeing self as object of mother, 92 community, violence and, 11 connecting to women, 22 control over one’s self, exaggerated sense of, 8 Index 207 cowboy Bronco Billy, 5–6 Eastwood’s restoration of humanity, 8 as folk hero, 38 Unforgiven undermining myth, 38 dead woman Bronfen, Elizabeth, 28–29 Munny’s fidelity (Unforgiven), 29 Unforgiven, 28 death, of double, phallic wholeness and, 65 Derrida, Jacques, 67 dignity, technological progress and, 36–37 Dirty Harry, 1–2 establishment and, 169 minorities and, 170 as white working-class hero, 169 disorienting experience of violence, 19 dopplegänger as device, 40 double death of, 40 Buddy (Blood Work), 64–65 phallic wholeness and, 65 killing of, 48 Rank, Otto and, 48 doubling, 23–24 identification and, 52 In the Line of Fire, 59 introduction, 52 dwarfism, castration and, 35 earth mother, Tightrope, 43 Easthope, Anthony, on masculine body, 66 Eastwood, Clint as character actor, 37 direction of self in Firefox, 148 essence of heterosexual love (Tightrope ), 50 macho hero as front, 50 erotic transport (The Bridges of Madison County), 85 eroticism, bond between men, 78 ethic of mercy, 72 ethic of retribution, 72 ethical demand, Other and, 118 ethical meaning, struggle for, 8 evil forgiveness and, 18 In the Line of Fire, 60 as possibility, 7 reparation and, 18 trauma unleashing, 10–11 vulnerability to, 74 evil woman, Fatal Attraction and, 2 faith Pale Rider, 24 Santa Claus and, 175 fantasy rescuer, 71 Fatal Attraction, 2 father Absolute Power, 189 admitting to failure, 95–96...