This volume is a study of the classic western film Rio Bravo, which, according to the author, remains "beyond politics, as an argument as to why we should all want to go on living."
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Robin Wood is the author of many pioneering books on the cinema, among them Howard Hawks, Hitchcock's Films Revisited and Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond.
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This was, apart from a few flaws, a very enjoyable book about one of the most enjoyable movies of all time. Wood's pleasure in "Rio Bravo" is apparent on every page. He points out the similarities between "Rio Bravo" and "Only Angels Have Wings" and "To Have and Have Not." He brilliantly demolishes the "High Noon" left wing- "Rio Bravo" right wing dichotomy that so many repeat without thinking. His analysis of key scenes is right on the money.Yet there are flaws. There is a passage that compares Howard Hawks to Jean Paul Sartre that just didn't work for me. Likewise, Wood's discovery of a gay context between Dude and Colorado failed to convince. However, my biggest gripe is that Wood goes on and on about how Feathers is the most vulnerable and touching of Hawks' heroines, and he never mentions the fact that "Rio Bravo" was co-written by Leigh Brackett, who was a woman! Indeed, Wood seems supremely uninterested in the circumstances of how the film was made, which bothered me. It was as if everything just sprang from Hawks' forehead. However, this didn't take away from the fun of the book, which reflects the fun of the movie.
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- Howard Hawks: American Artist by Jim Hillier on 4 pages
- John Waynes America by Garry Wills on page 285, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western (New Approaches to Film Genre) by Patrick McGee on page 132
- John Wayne: There Rode a Legend by Jane Pattie on page 255
- Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film (Illini Book) by John H. Lenihan on page 125
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