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Bringing Up Baby
Series: BFI Film Classics
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This film is ideal for fans of classic cinema, screwball comedies, and sophisticated slapstick. It will also appeal to those interested in 1930s American culture and timeless romantic farce.
There are no human babies in Bringing Up Baby, but there are those leopards and the relentless terrier George – and, as Peter Swaab explores in his witty and original study, Hawks's film wonders profoundly why we want animals in our lives and why we sometimes need to behave as animals ourselves.
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Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, is one of the greatest screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cary Grant plays a naive and repressed palaeosaurologist who becomes entangled with (and ensnared by) a wilful heiress (Katharine Hepburn). Chaos ensues as romance blossoms and not one but two leopards are set loose in verdant Connecticut. All of Hawks's skills are to the fore: there is a wonderful ensemble cast, the characteristically refined but unselfconscious visual style, an endless succession of pratfalls, innuendo and jokes (written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde) and, underneath the chaos and good cheer, a serious dream of escaping life's hardships by dint of nothing more or less than nerve and luck As well as being a thoroughly American fiction of the 1930s, Bringing Up Baby is in its way a classical comic narrative, exploring conflicts between civilisation and nature, rationality and insanity or eccentricity, middle-class inhibitions and aristocratic blitheness. It is the epitome of film comedy, an anthology of comic types and devices, and one of the most seductively funny films ever made.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781844570706
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 November 2010
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Illustration: 92 b/w photos
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 188.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 128
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About the Author
PETER SWAAB ?is Reader in English at University College London, UK. He was co-editor of Thorold Dickinson: a world of film in 2008, and his other recent books include editions of Sara Coleridge's Collected Poems (2007) and Edward Lear's Selected Nonsense and Travel Writings (2005) for Carcanet Press, and The Two Noble Kinsmen (2009) for the Penguin Shakespeare.
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