Cover of The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

This text shows how The Big Sleep signalled a change in the nature of Hollywood cinema, as the director Howard Hawks shot extra scenes, "fun" scenes, to replace the ones in which the murders are explained, and in so doing left the plot unresolved.

Subject
literary criticism
Themes
movies
Audience
adult
Length
short · 73 pages

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