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Palgrave/BFI announces publication of Howard Hawks: New Perspectives, edited by Ian Brookes.

In a career spanning half a century, Howard Hawks (1896–1977) made many of Hollywood's most critically acclaimed and enduringly popular films. Working in almost every genre, his output includes firmly established classics such as Scarface (1932), His Girl Friday (1940), The Big Sleep (1946), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959). But although one of the greatest American film-makers, he remains something of a marginalised figure and often goes unrecognised as the director of his own films. 

In this wide-ranging collection of new essays, leading international scholars provide reassessments of Hawks's work and working methods in relation to genre, gender, music, visual style, space and narrative. Spanning Hawks's silent period to the late Westerns, and focusing on his critical successes as well as his neglected and disparaged films, the volume recognises and re-evaluates his diverse contribution to film-making.

The book has a preface by James D'Arc (Brigham Young University) and essays by Michael J Anderson (Oklahoma City Museum of Art), Ian Brookes (University of Nottingham), Harper Cossar (Emory University), Adrian Danks (RMIT University), Doug Dibbern (New York University), Jeffrey Hinkelman (Carnegie Mellon University), Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia), Kathryn Kalinak (Rhode Island College), Robert Manning (University of East Anglia), Joe McElhaney (Hunter College, City University of New York), Steve Neale (Exeter University), Tom Ryall (Sheffield Hallam University), Jesse Schlotterbeck (Denison University), Tony Williams (Southern Illinois University) and Ellen Wright (De Montfort University).

‘This wonderful collection of essays displays an abundance of adept scholarship, savvy connoisseurship, and deep archival research. It is among the best critical reviews of Hawks, or any film-maker for that matter, that I’ve read in a long time; it is a pleasure and a delight.’ 
Peter Stanfield, Professor of Film, University of Kent, UK

Further information about this book, including its table of contents, is available from Palgrave Macmillan:
https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/howard-hawks-ian-brookes/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781844575411






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