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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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword to the Original Edition by Paul Newman
Preface to the Revised Edition
1. "Creating an Environment": A Thematic Overview
2. Growing Up Amused: Early Life, Television, and Theater
3. A Period of Adjustment: Period of Adjustment and Toys in the Attic
4. New Directions: The World of Henry Orient
5. Who's in Control? Hawaii and Thoroughly Modern Millie
6. "Just So We Come Out Ahead": Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7. Unstuck in Time: Slaughterhouse Five
8. The Big Con: The Sting
9. The Corruption of Sport: The Great Waldo Pepper and Slap Shot
10. Innocence Revisited: A Little Romance
11. A Womb-to-Tomb Personal Epic: The World According to Garp
12. "I Am a Map of the Middle East": The Little Drummer Girl
13. "One of Those Small Miracles": Funny Farm
14. Conclusions and Remembrances
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index
