Parallax View

[Originally published in Movietone News 54, June 1977. This essay on Bringing Up Baby is a chapter of the author's University of Washington doctoral dissertation Howard Hawks: An American Auteur in the Hemingway Tradition.] Bringing Up Baby‘s narrative and thematic directions have much in common with those of Shakespearean comedy. Positing the green world of [...]

[Originally published in slightly different form in Movietone News 62-63, December 1979] Emlyn Williams’s play The Corn Is Green is nothing if not aptly titled. Williams has always been a minor writer, and when writing about his homeland, Wales, which is also my homeland, he has been particularly unimpressive. He writes for tourists – coy jokes, [...]