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Bringing Up Baby: Howard Hawks, Director: 10 (Rutgers Films in Print series) - Softcover

 
9780813513416: Bringing Up Baby: Howard Hawks, Director: 10 (Rutgers Films in Print series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813513413 ISBN 13: 9780813513416
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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About the Author

GERALD MAST was Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He was the author of The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies; Film/Cinema/Movie: A Theory of Experience; Howard Hawks, Storyteller; A Short History of the Movies and Can't Help Singin': The American Musical on Stage and Screen. 

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From the Back Cover

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 
0813513413
ISBN 13 
9780813513416
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
332
Editor
Mast Gerald