Clint Eastwood and The Outlaw Josey Wales, with Jason McGinty

About this episode

The episode discusses Clint Eastwood's film The Outlaw Josey Wales and explores themes of masculinity and historical narratives in Eastwood's work.

Brett and Thomas are joined by Jason McGinty, author of The Unsung Substack, for a discussion of both Clint Eastwood's 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales and Eastwood's broader persona. We talk about the movie's use of the Lost Cause narrative about the Civil War, with Jason providing his expertise on the historical backdrop of the film, the war between the Jayhawker and Bushwhacker guerilla factions in Kansas and Missouri. With references to many Eastwood films and other aspects of his life and career, we make the case that the rugged individualism of his action movies was largely a Trojan horse, a masculine guise used to subvert the social order and accelerate the dissolution of the family. https://jasonmcginty.substack.com/ Use the code psyopcinema for a limited time 30% discount on the Decoding Culture Foundation website if you want to buy issue's #1 and #2 of the research anthology Cultural Engineering Studies (issue #3 available soon, on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) - https://decoding-culture.com/buy-print-issue-1/ https://decoding-culture.com/ces-issue-2/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop https://psyopcinema.com/ thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com

People in this episode

Hosts: Brett, Thomas Millary

Guest: Jason McGinty

Topics covered

• Clint Eastwood
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Lost Cause narrative
• Civil War history
• rugged individualism
• masculinity in film

Keywords

• Clint Eastwood
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Civil War
• Lost Cause
• rugged individualism
• masculinity
• film analysis

Sponsors

Decoding Culture Foundation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Unsung Substack, Cultural Engineering Studies, Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism

Books & works: The Outlaw Josey Wales

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