| Bringing Up Baby 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Swaab, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844570703 ISBN-13: 9781844570706 Publisher: British Film Institute OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.437 |
| Series: BFI Film Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.48 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, Bringing Up Baby is one of the great screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cary Grant plays a naive and repressed professor who becomes entangled with (and ensnared by) a willful heiress played by Katharine Hepburn. Chaos ensues as romance blossoms and not one but two leopards are set loose in verdant Connecticut. As well as being a thoroughly American fiction of the 1930s, Bringing Up Baby also has a classical comic narrative, exploring conflicts between civilization and nature, rationality and insanity or eccentricity, middle-class inhibitions and aristocratic blitheness. It is an anthology of comic types and devices, and one of the most seductively funny films ever made. |