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HOWARD HAWKS AMERICAN ARTIST Edited by Jim Hillier and Peter Wollen BFI PUBLISHING CONTENTS Introduction 1 Peter Wollen A Girl in Every Port 13 Jean-George Auriol Ceiling Zero 15 Otis Ferguson Barbary Coast and Only Angels Have Wings 18 Graham Greene To Have and Have Not 21 James Agee Air Force 24 Andre Bazin The Genius of Howard Hawks 26 Jacques Rivette How Could You Possibly Be a Hitchcocko-Hawksian? 32 Andre Bazin Underground Films 35 Manny Farber j | - •' \ Cowboy Cop 46 G. Cain (Guillermo Cabrera Infante) • Interview with Howard Hawks 50 Peter Bogdanovich Hawks's Comedies 68 V. F. Perkins The Modernity of Howard Hawks 72 Henri Langlois Hatari! • 77 Jean Douchet Howard Hawks 83 Lee Russell Rio Bravo 87 Robin Wood Howard Hawks 103 Andrew Sarris Man's Favorite Sport? (Revisited) 107 Molly Haskell The Hawksian Woman 111 Naomi Wise A Comment on 'The Hawksian Woman' 120 Leigh Brackett I Was a Male War Bride 123 John Belton Leopards in Connecticut: Bringing Up Baby 129 Stanley Cavell Hawks and Faulkner 144 Bruce Kawin Empire to the West: Red River 152 Robert Sklar Retrospect 163 Robin Wood How Howard Hawks Brought Baby Up: An Apologia for the Studio System 175 Richard B. Jewell Borden Chase, Howard Hawks and Red River 185 Richard Corliss Classic Hollywood's Holding Pattern: The Combat Films of World W.arll 190 Robert B.Ray Howard the Dreamer 200 Slim Keith Fig Leaves in Hollywood: Female Representation and Consumer Culture 203 Jeanne Thomas Allen Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Anita Loos/Howard Hawks/Marilyn Monroe 214 Laura Mulvey Filmography 231 Bibliography 241 Index 247.

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