Jean-Louis Fabiani est professeur de sociologie à Central European University à Budapest après avoir été membre de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Il est originaire de Venaco (Corse) et a été de 1988 à 1991 directeur régional des Affaires culturelles de l’île. Il est l’auteur d’une douzaine d’ouvrages parmi lesquels Les Philosophes de la République (Minuit, 1988), L’Éducation populaire et le théâtre (PUG, 2008), Qu’est-ce qu’un philosophe français ? (EHESS, 2010) et Pierre Bourdieu. Un structuralisme héroïque (Seuil, 2016).
Who is Clint Eastwood? Some feminists see him as the man who has deconstructed masculinity, at the same time he is Afro-Americans’ favorite actor. So, there is a mystery around Clint Eastwood that this book tries to solve through a sociological analysis of his career and a description of how he represents questions of class, gender and skin color. Ambivalence is the thread running through the actor’s work making it open to interpretation and susceptible to multiple, contradictory appropriations.
Jean-Louis Fabiani is a sociologist. He currently works at the Central European University (Vienna) after being Director of Studies at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). He is particularly interested in how legitimate, popular cultural objects are distributed in society and appropriated in a wide variety of ways. He is the author of some dozen works among the most recent of which are, La Sociologie comme elle s’écrit. De Bourdieu à Latour (Sociology as it is written. From Bourdieu to Latour (Éditions de l’EHESS, 2015), Pierre Bourdieu. Un structuralisme héroïque (Pierre Bourdieu. Heroic structuralism (Seuil, 2016) and Sociologie de la Corse (Sociology of Corsica) (La Découverte, Repères, 2018).