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As late as 1976, George Roy Hill was the first and only director to have two all-time, top-ten, box-office hits: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting (both starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman). A filmmaker with backgrounds in music, drama and television, he was a popular storyteller. His films reflect an ironic, bittersweet vision of life. The stories entertain, but the subtext is often disturbing. Hill felt that all of his major characters "create an environment, a fantasy, an illusion, and then go on to make it happen."

Individual chapters study in detail the art, craft and style of each of his films, including Period of Adjustment, Toys in the Attic, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Slaughterhouse Five, A Little Romance, The World According to Garp, The Little Drummer Girl and Hill's last, Funny Farm.

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In this fascinating and entertaining book Andrew Horton provides the first comprehensive portrait of Hill's entire career, from early theater and television work to The Little Drummer Girl. He depicts the director as an ironic vision of the American experience; a successor to Mark Twain And Herman Melville; a contemporary of Kurt Vonnegut And John Irving.

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Title The Films of George Roy Hill, rev. ed.
Author Andrew Horton
Binding Paperback
Edition Revised
Pages 317
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc.
Date 2010-12-10
Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780786446841 / 0786446846
Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
Dimensions 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 in (25.15 x 17.53 x 1.52 cm)
Ages 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004020956
Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

About the author

Andrew Horton is the Jeanne H Smith Professor of Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Also an award winning screenwriter and author of numerous books on film, screenwriting and culture, he lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Paperback / softback. New. As late as 1976, George Roy Hill was the first and only director to have two films on the all-time top ten box office hits: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting". This book begins with a discussion of the way Hill's films often make their most important statements on the subtextual level.