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Howard Hawks

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Wayne State University Press, 2006 - Performing Arts - 210 pages

Prolific director Howard Hawks made films in nearly every genre, from gangster movies like Scarface to comedies like Bringing Up Baby and Monkey Business and westerns like Rio Bravo. In this new edition of a classic text, author Robin Wood explores the ways in which Hawks pushed the boundaries of each genre and transformed the traditional forms in new, interesting, and creative ways. This reprint also contains an exciting new introduction by Wood, which shows how his thinking about Hawks has deepened over time without fundamentally changing.

Since its original publication in 1972, Wood's Howard Hawks has set the terms for virtually all subsequent discussions of the director. The provocative chapters demonstrate the ways in which Hawks's films were affected by the director's personality and way of looking at and feeling things, and by his celebration of instinct, self-respect, group responsibility, and male camaraderie. Wood's connections between the professionalism of Hawks's action films and comedies, with their "lure of irresponsibility," has become a standard way of conceptualizing Hawks's films and the model to which all later critical work has had to respond. This book remains as contemporary as when it was first released, although it is grounded in the auteur period of its publication.

Robin Wood has stubbornly resisted the trends of academic film studies and in so doing has remained one of its most influential voices. Certain to be of interest to film scholars and students, this book will also be particularly useful as a text for university courses on Hawks, popular cinema, and authorship in film.

  

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I read a book about HH and his movies back in the early 70's. I don't know if it was this one though. Back in my movie fanatic days. Trivia Bowl days too. Date read is a guess.

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Selected pages

Contents

Introduction to 1981 Edition i
1
The Lure of Irresponsibility
52
The Group
83
Male Relationships
107
The Instinctive Consciousness
124
Down the Valley of the Shadow
146
Failures and Marginal Works
157
Filmography
182
Acknowledgements
210
Copyright

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by David Boxwell - profile of director Howard Hawks.
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About the author (2006)

Robin Wood is a founding editor of CineAction! and the author of numerous works, including Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (Columbia, 1985) and Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Columbia, 1998). He is professor emeritus at York University, Toronto, and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema Studies.

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TitleHoward Hawks
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
AuthorRobin Wood
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherWayne State University Press, 2006
ISBN0814332765, 9780814332764
Length210 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Performing Arts / Individual Director
  
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