Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson (2017)

Özet

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.

Oyuncular

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  David Bordwell

  Self

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  Rosalind Russell

  Self (archive footage)

Ekip

Yapımcı

Kim Hendrickson

Yönetici yapımcı

Fumiko Takagi, Peter Becker, Jonathan Turell

Kurgu

Gabriel Chávez