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Howard Hawks : new perspectives

Title
Howard Hawks : new perspectives / edited by Ian Brookes.
Publication
  • London : Palgrave on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Brookes, Ian
  • British Film Institute, sponsoring body.
Description
xi, 283 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
Summary
"In a career spanning half a century, Howard Hawks (1896-1977) made many of Hollywood's most critically acclaimed and enduringly popular films. Working in almost every genre, his output includes firmly established classics such as Scarface (1932), His Girl Friday (1940), The Big Sleep (1946), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959). But although one of the greatest American film-makers, he remains something of a marginalised figure and often goes unrecognised as the director of his own films. In this wide-ranging collection of new essays, leading international scholars provide reassessments of Hawks's work and working methods in relation to genre, gender, music, visual style, space and narrative. Spanning Hawks's silent period to the late Westerns, and focusing on his critical successes as well as his neglected and disparaged films, the volume recognises and re-evaluates his diverse contribution to film-making."--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • "A BFI book published by Palgrave."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.
  • Filmography: pages 245-262.
Contents
'Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?': Space, Place and Community in the Cinema of Howard Hawks / Adrian Danks -- Hawks, Widescreen and Visual Style / Harper Cossar -- Hawks's 'UnHawksian' Biopic: Sergeant York / Jesse Schlotterbeck -- 'A Poisonous Picture': The Big Sleep, the Hollywood Left and the Postwar Thriller / Robert Manning -- Hawks and the Western / Tom Ryall -- Gestures, Movements and Actions in Rio Bravo / Steve Neale -- 'A Travesty on Sex': Gender and Performance in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Ellen Wright -- Adapting to Women: Hawks, Comedy and Gender / Jeffrey Hinkelman -- Scoring the West: Dimitri Tiomkin and Howard Hawks / Kathryn Kalinak -- 'More Than Just Dance Music': Hawks and Jazz in the 1940s / Ian Brookes -- Red Line 7000: Fatal Disharmonies / Joe McElhaney -- Professionalism, the Protestant Ethic and the New Deal: Hawks in the 1930s / Michael J. Anderson -- The Dawn Patrol: The Once and Future Hawks / Tony Williams -- Irresolvable Circularity: Narrative Closure and Nihilism in Only Angels Have Wings / Doug Dibbern.
Call Number
MWES (Hawks, H.) 16-4753
ISBN
  • 9781844575411
  • 1844575411
  • 9781844575428
  • 184457542X
OCLC
948261945
Title
Howard Hawks : new perspectives / edited by Ian Brookes.
Publisher
London : Palgrave on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.
Filmography: pages 245-262.
Added Author
Brookes, Ian, editor.
British Film Institute, sponsoring body.
Research Call Number
MWES (Hawks, H.) 16-4753
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