FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W293868291> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W293868291 startingPage "72" @default.
• W293868291 abstract "Clearly central to the task which director Howard Hawks sets himself in adapting Hecht and MacArthur's Front Page into his own film, His Girl Friday, is the need to reformulate the central character, Hildy Johnson. Hawks has both begun this reformulation and compounded its difficulties by opting to present Hildy as woman rather than man. To bring to fruition this initial switch, while retaining the broad outlines of the stage play's plot, Hawks must justify his new Hildy in terms of the demands levied by Hildy's role in the original play. Specifically, he must make his female Hildy believable as what her opposite, Walter (Cary Grant), dubs her in the film: The best I know. At the same time he must establish her as recognizable, 1940 romantic lead. Hawks seems to aim at building his essentially new comedy around the special irony of Hildy who is both. That the resulting character may prove to be of type- the sophisticated, strong-minded career woman Rosalind Russell often portrayed in such films-will only confirm Hawks's success. It is no argument against the peculiarity of the problem to this situation. Hawks, producer and director on His Girl Friday, inherits stage plot turning upon the irreconcilability of professional and romantic life for its (male) Hildy. To transmute that story into romantic comedy on film, he must retain measure of conflict but finally cause romance and professional obligation to converge. Hawks saw that female Hildy might accomplish this fusion- but once brought into being, she must do so for the comedy to work at all. Thus arises Hawks's central task. To assess his approach to it, we naturally would look for scenes that focus intimately on Hildy's character. One such scene ensues when Hildy seeks out the condemned man, Earl Williams, for an interview in his prison cell. Hawks's great success in this scene is the creation of an integrated Hildy who is credibly a great newspaperman precisely because she is female- and conversely one who, as newspaperman, is exactly the woman to succeed in the hard-bitten newspaper world, in Walter's life, and in the pivotal role of Hawks's newly forged romantic comedy. Stylistic analysis of the brief scene yields much insight, not only into Hawks's particular strategies but also into the larger issues involved in adapting theater comedy of one genre into film representative of another. scene does not appear in the stage version. This fact itself, Unking the scene with other important sequences written new for the film, makes it characteristic of Hawks's transmutative work. Predictably, given the task as outlined, most of the new material occurs in the first, largely expository half of the film, when characters are established. cell scene occurs at an important point near the end of this first half. Reasons for its appearance lie in the logic of Hawks's new plot. Hildy of FrontPage falls back into reporting by instinct, in reflexive response to the crisis of Earl Williams's jailbreak. Walter, to that point, has done nothing to persuade Hildy to come back to work. His incessant browbeating and his single attempt at trickery have earned only Hildy's vow to walk right up to you and hammer on that monkey skull of yours. Hildy first betrays reportorial instinct only some time after this exchange. By contrast, Hildy's visit to Earl Williams in the film follows from Walter's conniving. Hildy here shows more of conscious calculation than bombast and instinct. Also, of course, she appears manipulable, but this trait derives from her weddedness to newspaper work- and, implicitly, to Walter, who is altogether more visible to us in the film than in the play. As is quite opposite in the play, Walter's influence at this point is that of newpapering. Hildy succumbs to both with the same act. convergence begins. On the face of it, therefore, the cell scene presents conscious, more commanding Hildy, one who is on more intimate terms with Walter and thus subject to the grip of her profession through him. …" @default.
• W293868291 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W293868291 creator A5041043936 @default.
• W293868291 date "1985-04-01" @default.
• W293868291 modified "2023-09-27" @default.
• W293868291 title "'HIS GIRL FRIDAY' IN THE CELL, A CASE-STUDY OF THEATRE-TO-FILMADAPTATION" @default.
• W293868291 hasPublicationYear "1985" @default.
• W293868291 type Work @default.
• W293868291 sameAs 293868291 @default.
• W293868291 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W293868291 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W293868291 hasAuthorship W293868291A5041043936 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C105795698 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C107038049 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C138496976 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C15744967 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C167651023 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C185592680 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C2524010 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C2778047097 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C2778447849 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C2779975665 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C2780861071 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C33923547 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C518914266 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C548253320 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C55493867 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W293868291 hasConcept C98184364 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C105795698 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C107038049 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C124952713 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C138496976 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C142362112 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C15744967 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C167651023 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C17744445 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C185592680 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C199539241 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C2524010 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C2778047097 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C2778447849 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C2779975665 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C2780861071 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C33923547 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C518914266 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C548253320 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C55493867 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C95457728 @default.
• W293868291 hasConceptScore W293868291C98184364 @default.
• W293868291 hasIssue "2" @default.
• W293868291 hasLocation W2938682911 @default.
• W293868291 hasOpenAccess W293868291 @default.
• W293868291 hasPrimaryLocation W2938682911 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W100501595 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W1481509922 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W1493919917 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W1998870618 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W2046184811 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W223705922 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W2328329676 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W2339444351 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W2341830653 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W268370476 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W301879669 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W3199465862 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W52794745 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W653331482 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W212478538 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W2602027234 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W2607439897 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W2616216954 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W73450616 @default.
• W293868291 hasRelatedWork W808480337 @default.
• W293868291 hasVolume "13" @default.
• W293868291 isParatext "false" @default.
• W293868291 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W293868291 magId "293868291" @default.
• W293868291 workType "article" @default.