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The Early Hawks: Howard Hawks and His Films, 1926-1936.

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書名/作者:	The Early Hawks: Howard Hawks and His Films, 1926-1936.
作者:	Anderson, Michael Jay.
面頁冊數:	248 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-11A(E).
標題:	Cinema.
標題:	Art History.
標題:	American Studies.
ISBN:	9781303296994
摘要、提要註:	This dissertation defines and historicizes Hollywood director Howard Hawks's (1896-1977) unique authorial contribution through a comprehensive set of autobiographically informed close readings and the practice of a thorough cultural analysis that seeks to frame Hawks's cinema within the appropriate ethnic, philosophical, political, religious and social contexts. This project centers on the first ten years of Hawks's work as director, insisting that it is within this comparatively unseen and under-analyzed body-of-work that the filmmaker's singular artistic identity emerges with the greatest degree of clarity. To begin with, it is in this site of origin for the "Hawksian" idiom that the filmmaker's special embodiment of the post-World War I decade receives its most straightforward and comprehensive expression. This dissertation accordingly offers an exhaustive, gendered accounting of popular historian Frederick Lewis Allen's "revolution in manners and morals" and the period's nascent consumer culture in relationship to the director's earliest surviving feature, Fig Leaves (1926). In so doing, this project relies not only on the film text, but also the period's star-oriented and trade publications in identifying Hawks's particular and separate address to male and female audiences. Hawks's partially Garden of Eden-based, battle-of-the-sexes comedy Fig Leaves consequently provides a thematic template for the filmmaker's late silent-period, often female-targeted Fox contract features, Paid to Love (1927), The Cradle Snatchers (1927) and Fazil (1928), which this dissertation analyzes as both expressions of the same postwar culture---a discussion of the "sheik" archetype is especially germane to both the era's new mores and also its consumer culture---and in relationship to the technological and aesthetic changes that emerged with the arrival of sound and the Hollywood influx of German emigre talent. This project thusly considers these same thematic and stylistic features in the filmmaker's pre-Code masterpiece Scarface (1932), which serves to fulfill the director's late silent idiom while pointing the way toward Hawks's consequent early sound-era artistry (which provides the remaining focus of the dissertation).
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The Early Hawks: Howard Hawks and His Films, 1926-1936.
Anderson, Michael Jay.

The Early Hawks: Howard Hawks and His Films, 1926-1936. - 248 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2013.

This dissertation defines and historicizes Hollywood director Howard Hawks's (1896-1977) unique authorial contribution through a comprehensive set of autobiographically informed close readings and the practice of a thorough cultural analysis that seeks to frame Hawks's cinema within the appropriate ethnic, philosophical, political, religious and social contexts. This project centers on the first ten years of Hawks's work as director, insisting that it is within this comparatively unseen and under-analyzed body-of-work that the filmmaker's singular artistic identity emerges with the greatest degree of clarity. To begin with, it is in this site of origin for the "Hawksian" idiom that the filmmaker's special embodiment of the post-World War I decade receives its most straightforward and comprehensive expression. This dissertation accordingly offers an exhaustive, gendered accounting of popular historian Frederick Lewis Allen's "revolution in manners and morals" and the period's nascent consumer culture in relationship to the director's earliest surviving feature, Fig Leaves (1926). In so doing, this project relies not only on the film text, but also the period's star-oriented and trade publications in identifying Hawks's particular and separate address to male and female audiences. Hawks's partially Garden of Eden-based, battle-of-the-sexes comedy Fig Leaves consequently provides a thematic template for the filmmaker's late silent-period, often female-targeted Fox contract features, Paid to Love (1927), The Cradle Snatchers (1927) and Fazil (1928), which this dissertation analyzes as both expressions of the same postwar culture---a discussion of the "sheik" archetype is especially germane to both the era's new mores and also its consumer culture---and in relationship to the technological and aesthetic changes that emerged with the arrival of sound and the Hollywood influx of German emigre talent. This project thusly considers these same thematic and stylistic features in the filmmaker's pre-Code masterpiece Scarface (1932), which serves to fulfill the director's late silent idiom while pointing the way toward Hawks's consequent early sound-era artistry (which provides the remaining focus of the dissertation).

ISBN: 9781303296994Subjects--Topical Terms:

423239
Cinema.

The Early Hawks: Howard Hawks and His Films, 1926-1936.
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