Hawks on Hawks
Joseph McBride
Abstract
Howard Hawks (1896–1977) is the most versatile of all the great American directors, having worked with equal ease and brilliance in screwball comedies, Westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. Hawks on Hawks draws on interviews Joseph McBride conducted with the director over the course of the last seven years of his life, giving rare insight into Hawks’s artistic philosophy, his relationships with some of the major figures in Hollywood, and his position in an industry that was rapidly changing. Both an account of Hawks’s life and work and a guide to his insights on how to make ... More
Keywords: Howard Hawks, Director, Westerns, Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rio Bravo
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813142623 |
| Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: May 2014 | DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813142623.001.0001 |
