Howard Hawks, American artist

Jim Hillier, Peter Wollen

"The titles of Howard Hawks' most illustrious works are among the best known of all Hollywood classics. Bring Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes are more popular today than they have ever been. The anthology of the best criticism produced about Hawks' films demonstrates the coherence and integrity of his works as a whole, and argues for its centrality to the the tradition of classic Hollywood cinema. A fascinating variety of critics are collected together."--back cover.