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The Films of Frank Capra

by Ray Carney

Type
Studies
Subject
DirectorFrank Capra
Keywords
Frank Capra, filmography, analysis
Publishing date
1996
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
1st publishing
1986
Language
English
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Relative size
Physical desc.
Paperback • 536 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (16 x 23.5 cm)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
0-8195-6301-3
978-0-8195-6301-9
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Book Presentation:
The first interdisciplinary study of America's best-known filmmaker.

About the Author:
RAY CARNEY is Professor of Film and American Studies at Boston University. His books include The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies (1994) and Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (1989). He is the General Editor of The Cambridge Films Classics and an advisor to numerous national and international film festivals.

Press Reviews:
An extraordinary achievement and undertaking . . . a true fruition and a powerful defense of the auteurist impulse in film studies. -- Film Quarterly

See the publisher website: Wesleyan University Press

See the complete filmography of Frank Capra on the website: IMDB ...

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