Bringing Up Baby

by Peter Swaab

Overview

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 Hepburban. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844570706
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/04/2011
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Peter Swaab has edited the Penguin edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen and The Collected Poems of Sara Coleridge and was the co-editor of Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film. He is currently a Reader at Univesity College, London.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1 In New York.- 2 In Connecticut.- 3 In New York.- Appendix: Bringing Up Baby at the box office.- Notes.- Credits.- Select Bibliography.