Director: Howard Hawks

Prail Coffell
10th January 2023
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Red River. Dir. Howard Hawks. Monterey Productions. 1948.

Red River. Dir. Howard Hawks. Monterey Productions. 1948. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Prail Coffell Prail Coffell https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea8493c40c49042f7660d2d40126bb1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g 10th January 2023 10th February 2023

https://youtu.be/aN0alpNLQak American expansionism and the frontier myth – the romanticisation of prosperity found in claiming the ‘wilderness’ and the forceful expansion of the American border – pillars of the Western…

Elaine Yee Lam Wong
15th January 2017
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Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO Radio Pictures. 1938.

Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO Radio Pictures. 1938. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Elaine Yee Lam Wong Elaine Yee Lam Wong https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ac0efec18d2659d4bba1a6b6da465219?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15th January 2017 25th May 2021

Howard Hawks created a mass of parallels between the female and the leopard Baby in Bringing Up Baby. He displays a classical Hollywood screwball gender notion – women are wild while…

Hannah Lumb
14th January 2017
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Bringing Up Baby. Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO. 1938.

Bringing Up Baby. Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO. 1938. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Hannah Lumb Hannah Lumb https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/049970fb889538f375191ce24cec8160?s=96&d=mm&r=g 14th January 2017 25th May 2021

In this article, I will analyse the scene in which David first encounters the dog, George, and Susan’s aunt, Mrs Random, while caught wearing Susan’s dressing gown. I will argue…

Anna Smitderk
19th June 2016
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Monkey Business. Dir. Howard Hawks. 20th Century Fox. 1952.

Monkey Business. Dir. Howard Hawks. 20th Century Fox. 1952. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Anna Smitderk Anna Smitderk https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/594e74cd600d2801a39bfc8abbb9190c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 19th June 2016 25th May 2021

Forever young – what seems to be an unrealistic and silly fantasy to some, is Dr. Barnaby Fulton’s (Cary Grant) everyday life: in Howard Hawk’s screwball comedy Monkey Business (1952),…

Elizabeth Cherry
26th January 2016
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Bringing up Baby. Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO Radio Pictures. 1938.

Bringing up Baby. Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO Radio Pictures. 1938. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Elizabeth Cherry Elizabeth Cherry https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/01d86224aa6a9f0e7c22c44fe7661b28?s=96&d=mm&r=g 26th January 2016 25th May 2021

Bringing up Baby is a film which explores the relationship between humans and animals through the use of doubling. This is particularly evident in the scene where Susan lets a wild…

Katie Goody
20th January 2015
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Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO. 1938.

Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO. 1938. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Katie Goody Katie Goody https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/00697cfd9d471d096ea0e564b751d1da?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20th January 2015 25th May 2021

In the romantic comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938) Hawks explores the association between animalism (behaviours or feelings associated with animals) and chaos. The comedy emerges out of the interactions between the unlikely…