Howard Hawks : new perspectives /
"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 (194...
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London :
Palgrave on behalf of the British Film Institute,
2016
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Table of 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