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Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

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.

Cast for Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson...

David Bordwell
David Bordwell
Self
Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell
Self (archive footage)
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