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Bringing Up Baby
Peter Swaab
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Paperback. Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, is one of the greatest screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Peter Swaab's original exploration of the film shows that at the heart of this classical comedy is a story as alarming as it is exhilarating, a dream of irresponsibility and a vindication of letting go. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 226. Series: BFI Film Classics. 128 pages, 92, 92 black & white halftones. Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, is one of the greatest screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Peter Swaab's original exploration of the film shows that at the heart of this classical comedy is a story as alarming as it is exhilarating, a dream of irresponsibility and a vindication of letting go. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: APFA. Dimension: 190 x 135 x 9. Weight: 226.
?Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, is one of the greatest screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cary Grant plays a naive and repressed palaeosaurologist who becomes entangled with (and ensnared by) a wilful heiress (Katharine Hepburn). Chaos ensues as romance blossoms and not one but two leopards are set loose in verdant Connecticut. All of Hawks's signature skills are to the fore: there is the wonderful ensemble cast, the characteristically refined but unselfconscious visual style, an endless succession of pratfalls, innuendo and jokes (written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde) and, ... Read more
?Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, is one of the greatest screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cary Grant plays a naive and repressed palaeosaurologist who becomes entangled with (and ensnared by) a wilful heiress (Katharine Hepburn). Chaos ensues as romance blossoms and not one but two leopards are set loose in verdant Connecticut. All of Hawks's signature skills are to the fore: there is the wonderful ensemble cast, the characteristically refined but unselfconscious visual style, an endless succession of pratfalls, innuendo and jokes (written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde) and, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844570706
SKU
V9781844570706
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99-50
About Peter Swaab
PETER SWAAB ?is Reader in English at University College London, UK. He was co-editor of Thorold Dickinson: a world of film in 2008, and his other recent books include editions of Sara Coleridge's Collected Poems (2007) and Edward Lear's Selected Nonsense and Travel Writings (2005) for Carcanet Press, and The Two Noble Kinsmen (2009) for the Penguin Shakespeare.
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