Another Frank Capra

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by Leland Poague

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Frank Capra

Keywords

Frank Capra, analysis

Publishing date

1994

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Collection

Cambridge Studies in Film

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 286 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-521-38066-9
978-0-521-38066-9

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Book Presentation:
Another 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.

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