Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

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Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

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

2017-01-10

Year

2017

Duration

25m

Status

Released

Score

0.00

Cast

David Bordwell

David Bordwell

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Self (archive footage)