Hawks on Hawks

Hawks on Hawks
Author: Joseph McBride
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813144310

"I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists." -- François Truffaut Howard Hawks (1896--1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball comedies, westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. He directed an impressive number of Hollywood's greatest stars -- including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, and Marilyn Monroe -- and some of his most celebrated films include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959). Hawks on Hawks draws on interviews that author Joseph McBride conducted with the director over the course of seven years, giving rare insight into Hawks's artistic philosophy, his relationships with the stars, and his position in an industry that was rapidly changing. In its new edition, this classic book is both an account of the film legend's life and work and a guidebook on how to make movies.

Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks
Author: Howard Hawks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781578068326

Interviews with the director of Scarface, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, Sergeant York, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo

Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks
Author: Robin Wood
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814332764

A significant and contemporary study of director Howard Hawks by influential film critic Robin Wood, reprinted with a new introduction.

Hawks in Flight

Hawks in Flight
Author: Pete Dunne
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780395709597

An indispensable guide for hawk watchers, this is a completely new edition of the seminal book that introduced a holistic method for identifying distant birds in flight.

The Story of the Atlanta Hawks

The Story of the Atlanta Hawks
Author: Tyler Omoth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781583419366

The history of the Atlanta Hawks professional basketball team from its start as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in 1946 to today, spotlighting the franchises greatest players and moments.

Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks
Author: Jim Hillier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1996-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This is an anthology of the best criticism produced about Hawks' films. Among the critics collected together in this book are Andrew Sarris and Robin Wood who go towards demonstrating the coherence and integrity of Hawks' work.

Hawks

Hawks
Author: Andrew Grant
Publisher: Shoal Bay
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Deer
ISBN: 9780908704798

HAWKS is a tale of New Zealand's wild south-west, set during the early years of the venison recovery industry. This was a time when the cowboys rode choppers instead of horses and used semi-automatic weapons, not six guns. They lived, worked and sometimes died in the most rugged and spectacular corner of this country - the vast Fiordland wilderness. HAWKS is a fictional tale but the fast action depicted here might very well have happened. It is the story of Gray, and enigmatic young man running from his past and the horrors of the Vietnam war. He returns to New Zealand's southern lands to find himself in a war of a very different kind - a dangerous war for the highest profits, set against some of the most inhospitable country in the world. With the deadly skills he learnt in the SAS, Gray becomes the top gun, the man every chopper pilot wants in the shooter's seat on his machine as the competition gets fiercer and men begin to take increasingly desperate risks. Some make mistakes and some die. Others are killed, apparently having made no mistakes at all. Gray's story encompasses life and death as well as love. Unashamedly robust, Hawks tells it like it really was, or could have been, as greed and jealousy and a woman named Mary combine in an explosive finale.

The Hawk's Way

The Hawk's Way
Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1668001977

A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the hawk—from the New York Times bestselling author of the “astoundingly beautiful” (NPR) The Soul of an Octopus. When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan’s farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a feisty, four-year-old, female Harris’s hawk with a wingspan of more than four feet. Not a pet, Jazz was a fierce predator with talons that could pierce skin and bone and yet, she was willing to work with a human to hunt. From the first moment Jazz swept down from a tree and landed on Sy’s leather gloved fist, Sy fell under the hawk’s magnetic spell. Over the next few years, Sy spent more time with these magnificent creatures, getting to know their extraordinary abilities and instincts. They are deeply emotional animals, quick to show anger and frustration, and can hold a grudge for years. But they are also loyal and intensely aware of their surroundings. In this mesmerizing account, featuring sixteen pages of gorgeous color photographs, Sy passionately and vividly reveals the wonderous world of hawks and what they can teach us about nature, life, and love.

Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks
Author: Todd McCarthy
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 1158
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802196403

The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors. Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first directors to declare his independence from the major studios. He played Svengali to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery Clift, and others, but Hawks’s greatest creation may have been himself. As The Atlantic Monthly noted, “Todd McCarthy. . . . has gone further than anyone else in sorting out the truths and lies of the life, the skills and the insight and the self-deceptions of the work.” “A fluent biography of the great director, a frequently rotten guy but one whose artistic independence and standards of film morality never failed.” —The New York Times Book Review “Hawks’s life, until now rather an enigma, has been put into focus and made one with his art in Todd McCarthy’s wise and funny Howard Hawks.” —The Wall Street Journal “Excellent. . . . A respectful, exhaustive, and appropriately smartass look at Hollywood’s most versatile director.” —Newsweek