Bringing Up Baby: Howard Hawks, Director (Rutgers Films in Print series)
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.
Publisher : Rutgers University Press; First Edition (November 1, 1988)
Language : English
Paperback : 332 pages
ISBN-10 : 0813513413
ISBN-13 : 978-0813513416
Item Weight : 1.09 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.9 x 6.5 inches
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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. 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.
Publisher : Rutgers University Press; First Edition (November 1, 1988)
Language : English
Paperback : 332 pages
ISBN-10 : 0813513413
ISBN-13 : 978-0813513416
Item Weight : 1.09 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.9 x 6.5 inches
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