Howard Hawks, Storyteller

Howard Hawks, Storyteller
ISBN-10
0195030915
ISBN-13
9780195030914
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Pages
406
Language
English
Published
1982
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Gerald Mast

Description

For most of Hawks's career (1925-70), film writers regarded him as a good storyteller and came to regard him as a major director and analyzed his work accordingly. Mast contends that Hawks has been widely misanalyzed. He illustrates his theses by a detailed study of nine films from Scarface to Red River. He emphasizes the importance of the nonverbal subtexts of Hawk's canon: his use of gestures, objects and framing. ISBN 0-19-503091-5 : $ 29.95.

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