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Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

📅 1/10/2017⏱️ 25 minutes0

Overview

In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday" (1940), which he believes to be the apotheosis of classical Hollywood storytelling. Bordwell discusses the film's history and the status of Howard Hawks as an auteur before delving into a detailed analysis of various aspects of the film's narrative, dialogue, use of props, editing, and staging.

Release Date

January 10, 2017

Runtime

25 minutes

Rating

0.0/100

Status

Released

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Content Source

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