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Informationen zum Autor Joseph McBride is an internationally known film critic and historian and a professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. McBride's sixteen books include What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career ; Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless ; and acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford. www.josephmcbridefilm.com Klappentext ""I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists.""-François Truffaut Howard Hawks (1896-1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball comedies, westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. He directed an impressive number of Hollywood's greatest stars-including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, and Marilyn Monroe-and some of his Zusammenfassung Hawks on Hawks draws on interviews that author Joseph McBride conducted with the director over the course of seven years! giving rare insight into Hawks's artistic philosophy! his relationships with the stars! and his position in an industry that was rapidly changing.
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Joseph McBride is the author of twenty-two books, including acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg, two other books on Welles, and critical studies of Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder. A former reporter, reviewer, and columnist for Daily Variety in Hollywood, McBride is a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University.
