Whit Stillman films and papers

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Whit Stillman films and papers

1981-2012

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hfa00048/catalog

Contains films and papers of the American filmmaker and writer Whit Stillman.

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Harvard Film Archive, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

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Stillman, Whit, 1952-

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Whit Stillman is an American writer and film director, whose comic films wittily dramatize the predicaments of individuals navigating what one of his characters jokingly refers to as the “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie.” Hearkening back to Hollywood’s golden age of screwball comedies, and further back to novels of manners written by Jane Austen and Henry James, Stillman’s films have been celebrated by the critic Nick Pinkerton as “the infectiously enthusiastic works of a connoisseur of the sport of int...