Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson — Plot

In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday" (1940), which he believes to be the apotheosis of classical Hollywood storytelling. Bordwell discusses the film's history and the status of Howard Hawks as an auteur before delving into a detailed analysis of various aspects of the film's narrative, dialogue, use of props, editing, and staging.

• Release date
• January 10, 2017
• Runtime
• 25 min
• Genres
• Documentary

Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson — Cast

David Bordwell Self Rosalind Russell Self (archive footage)