Bringing Up Baby - (Rutgers Films in Print) by Gerald Mast (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Bringing Up Baby (1938) is the essence of thirties screwball comedy.
- About the Author: GERALD MAST was Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
- 332 Pages
- Performing Arts, Film
- Series Name: Rutgers Films in Print
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About the Book
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.Book 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.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.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. Linda Avanzino and Robert Lyons now get the royaltiesDimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .74 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.07 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Rutgers Films in Print
Sub-Genre: Film
Genre: Performing Arts
Number of Pages: 332
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Theme: Direction & Production
Format: Paperback
Author: Gerald Mast
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 1988
TCIN: 1002294045
UPC: 9780813513416
Item Number (DPCI): 247-36-5457
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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