Bringing Up Baby: Howard Hawks, Director (Rutgers Films in Print) - Hardcover

 
9780813513409: Bringing Up Baby: Howard Hawks, Director (Rutgers Films in Print)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813513405 ISBN 13: 9780813513409
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Bringing Up Baby (1938) is the essence of thirties screwball comedy. It is also quintessential Howard Hawks, treating many of the director's favorite themes, particularly the loving war between the sexes. Bringing Up Baby features Katharine Hepburn as a flaky heiress and Cary Grant as an absentminded paleontologist, roles in which they come into their own as stars and deliver particularly fine comic performances. Pauline Kael has called the film the "American movies' closest equivalent to Restoration comedy." The comparison is based on the quick repartee and witty dialogue, a hallmark of Hawks's work and well conveyed here by Gerald Mast's transcription from the screen.

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Bringing Up Baby (1938) is the essence of thirties screwball comedy. It is also quintessential Howard Hawks, treating many of the director's favorite themes, particularly the loving war between the sexes.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813513405
ISBN 13 
9780813513409
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320
Editor
Mast Professor Gerald

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