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Hawks on Hawks
Joseph McBride
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Description for Hawks on Hawks
Series: Screen Classics. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
"I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists." -- François Truffaut
Howard Hawks (1896--1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball comedies, westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. He directed an impressive number of Hollywood's greatest stars -- including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, and Marilyn Monroe -- and some of his most celebrated films include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Big Sleep (1946), ... Read more
"I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists." -- François Truffaut
Howard Hawks (1896--1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball comedies, westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. He directed an impressive number of Hollywood's greatest stars -- including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, and Marilyn Monroe -- and some of his most celebrated films include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Big Sleep (1946), ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Condition
New
Series
Screen Classics
Number of Pages
248
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813142623
SKU
V9780813142623
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Ref
99-27
About Joseph McBride
Joseph McBride is the author of twenty-two books, including acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg, two other books on Welles, and critical studies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder. A former reporter, reviewer, and columnist for Daily Variety in Hollywood, McBride is a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University.
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