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    Hawks on Hawks
    Hawks on Hawks
    Hawks on Hawks
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    Hawks on Hawks

    By Joseph McBride

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    A portrait of the renowned film director based on seven years of interviews: “I am very happy that this book exists.” —François Truffaut

    Howard Hawks is often credited as the most versatile 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, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo.

    Hawks on Hawks draws on interviews that author Joseph McBride conducted with the director over the course of seven years, giving rare insight into Hawks’s artistic philosophy, his relationships with the stars, and his position in an industry that was rapidly changing. In its new edition, this classic book is both an account of the film legend’s life and work and a guidebook on how to make movies.

    “There are going to be many biographies of Howard Hawks, but they will all lean heavily on this book; the pioneer so honestly reveals himself and the people with whom he worked.” —Los Angeles Times
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 3, 2013
    ISBN9780813144306
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      A short read, much easier to read than Truffaut's book on Hitchcock, but in the same mold - interviews with the director on such subjects as John Wayne, John Ford, critics, storytelling. Hawks apparently was an anti-intellectual intellectual and had not much time for analysis of his gifts, nor of film nor acting. He was much more concerned with getting good work done and having fun while doing so.

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