American Vision
Author: Raymond Carney
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1986-10-31
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780521326193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Carney analyses Frank Capra's life as well as the broad cultural context of his films.
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The Films of Frank Capra
Author: Donald C. Willis
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Meet John Doe, It's a Wonderful Life, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Hole in the Head, Platinum Blonde, American Madness, Lady for a Day, Pocketful of Miracles, It Happened One Night, Broadway Bill, Riding High, Here Comes the Groom, The Strong Man, and others.
Regarding Frank Capra
Author: Eric Smoodin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005-01-13
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0822386267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative historical examination of the American movie audience, Eric Smoodin focuses on reactions to the films of Frank Capra. Best known for his Hollywood features—including It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—Capra also directed educational films, military films, and documentaries. Based on his analysis of the reception of a broad range of Capra’s films, Smoodin considers the preferences and attitudes toward Hollywood of the people who watched movies during the “Golden Age” of studio production, from 1930 to 1960. Drawing on archival sources including fan letters, exhibitor reports, military and prison records, government and corporate documents, and trade journals, Smoodin explains how the venues where Capra’s films were seen and the strategies used to promote the films affected audience response and how, in turn, audience response shaped film production. He analyzes issues of foreign censorship and government intervention in the making of The Bitter Tea of General Yen; the response of high school students to It Happened One Night; fan engagement with the overtly political discourse of Meet John Doe and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; San Quentin prisoners’ reaction to a special screening of It’s a Wonderful Life; and at&t’s involvement in Capra’s later documentary work for the Bell Science Series. He also looks at the reception of Capra’s series Why We Fight, used by the American military to train recruits and re-educate German prisoners of war. Illuminating the role of the famous director and his films in American culture, Regarding Frank Capra signals new directions for significant research on film reception and promotion.
The Films of Frank Capra
Author: Victor Scherle
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrank Capra
Author: Joseph McBride
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 825
ISBN-13: 1604738391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy. Using newly declassified U.S. government documents about Capra's response to being considered a possible “subversive” during the post-World War II Red Scare, McBride adds a final chapter to his unforgettable portrait of the man who gave us It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and Meet John Doe.
Frank Capra
Author: Robert Sklar
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published:
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781439904893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrank Capra's films have had a lasting impact on American culture. His powerful depiction of American values, myths, and ideals was central to such famous Hollywood films asIt Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life.These pre-war films are remembered for their depiction of an individual's overcoming adversity, populist politics, and an unflappable optimist view of life. This collection of nine essays by leading international film historians analyzes Capra's filmmaking during his most prolific period, from 1928 to 1939, taking a closer look at the more complex aspects of his work. They trace his struggles for autonomy against Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn, his reputation as an auteur, and the ways in which working within studio modes of production may have enhanced the director's strengths. The contributors also place their critiques within the context of the changing fortunes of the Hollywood studio system, the impact of the Depression, and Capra's working relationships with other studio staff and directors. The contributors' access to nineteen newly restored Capra films made at Columbia during this period fills this collection with some of the most comprehensive critiques available on the director's early body of work. Author note:Robert Sklar, Professor of Cinema at New York University, is the co-editor (with Charles Musser) ofResisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History(Temple), and the author of numerous books on film, includingMovie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies, City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield, andFilm: An International History of the Mediumwinner of the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award.Vito Zagarrioteaches film history at the University of Florence and film analysis at the University of Rome III, Italy.
Another Frank Capra
Author: Leland Poague
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0521380669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnother Frank Capra offers a new interpretation of the great Hollywood director beyond the patriotic sentimentalist or the cynical opportunist that he has been taken for. Often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Capra's exploitation of the stylistic and narrative resources of cinema was, in fact, extremely self-conscious and adventurous in ways typical of artistic modernism. His modernism is also evident in his repeated and strong identification with female characters. Informed by recent work in genre theory and feminist psychology, Another Frank Capra shows Capra to be a 'proto-feminist' director whose feminism has been entirely neglected by previous critics.
Frank Capra
Author: Charles Wolfe
Publisher: Hall Reference Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrank Capra
Author: Richard Glatzer
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs of Innocence and Experience
Author: Magdalena Grabias-Zurek
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013-07-26
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1443850950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs of Innocence and Experience: Romance in the Cinema of Frank Capra is a study of the director’s chosen movies from the perspective of three types of comedies: paradisal, purgatorial and infernal, as assigned by Dante in his Divine Comedy. Magdalena Grabias views Capra’s films in two broader categories of “innocence” and “experience,” where “innocence” represents Dantean paradisal level, and “experience” combines the levels of purgatory and inferno. Such a division constitutes the means to interpret Capra’s filmic universe and to describe the ever-evolving directorial vision of Frank Capra. The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate how, in the light of the theory of literary romance as presented by Northrop Frye in his seminal works concerning the subject, the films of Frank Capra fit into the genre of romance. Romantic elements in Frank Capra’s movies can be found in both “innocence” and “experience” categories and, hence, consequently in his paradisal, purgatorial and infernal comedies. However, in both categories, and all three comedy types, the romantic reality of each examined film is structured and developed in a different manner. The book offers an insight into Frank Capra’s films and the complex process of creating his multidimensional romantic universe within them.
