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Author : Raymond Carney
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521326193
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book American Vision written by Raymond Carney and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986-10-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Carney analyses Frank Capra's life as well as the broad cultural context of his films.
Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604738391
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Frank Capra written by Joseph McBride and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moviegoers 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.
Author : Charles Wolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813513874
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Meet John Doe written by Charles Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third film in a celebrated trilogy of socio-political dramas directed by Frank Capra in the late 1930s and early 1940s, "Meet John Doe" is arguably his most ambitious and disturbing work. An introductory essay reconstructs and analyzes the history of production, promotion and reception of "Meet John Doe". A complete transcript of the finished film, extensive annotations concerning original script material and previously unpublished alternate endings are included in this volume, as well as a section of recollections about the film's production, personal correspondance, an excerpt from Capra's autobiography, and a sampling of reviews and contemporary commentaries.
Author : Eric Smoodin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386267
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Regarding Frank Capra written by Eric Smoodin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Author : Frank Capra
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306807718
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Name Above The Title written by Frank Capra and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1997-03-22 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Frank Capra (1897–1991) is best known as the director of It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and It's a Wonderful Life, he was also an award-winning documentary filmmaker as well as a behind-the-scene force in the Director's Guild, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Producer's Guild. He worked with or knew socially everyone in the movie business from Mack Sennett, Chaplin, and Keaton in the silent era through the illustrious names of the golden age. He directed Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, and others. Reading his autobiography is like having Capra sitting in your living room, regaling you with his anecdotes. In The Name Above the Title he reveals the deeply personal story of how, despite winning six Academy Awards, he struggled throughout his life against the glamors, vagaries, and frustrations of Hollywood for the creative freedom to make some of the most memorable films of all time.
Author : Frank Capra
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578066179
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Frank Capra written by Frank Capra and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Hollywood directors had a higher profile in the 1930s than Frank Capra (1897-1991). He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and of the Screen Directors Guild. He won three Academy Awards as best director and was widely acclaimed as the man most responsible for making Columbia Pictures a success. This popularity was established and sustained by films that spoke to and for the times--It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. These replicated the nation's hopes and dreams for a national community. He worked with some of the brightest stars in Hollywood--James Stewart, Clark Gable, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Donna Reed, and Ann-Margret. Capra's interviews express his connection to the national audience and explore his own story. He was a Sicilian immigrant boy who survived rough-and-tumble beginnings to become Hollywood's most bankable director. In reflecting on his life, almost every one of his films was a parable of acclaim verging on disaster. He spent much of the 1940s in uniform while making films for the War Department. Although Capra was an optimist, World War II and his series of Why We Fight films called his legendary optimism into question. His postwar film It's a Wonderful Life (1946) gave an answer to those questions with an astonishing directness Capra never equaled again. In 1971 he published his autobiography, The Name Above the Title. Many of the interviews collected here come from this period when, as an elder statesman of motion picture art and history, he reflected on his long career. The interviews portray the Capra legend vividly and demonstrate why the warm relations between Capra and his audiences continue to inspire acclaim and admiration.
Author : Robert Sklar
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439904893
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Frank Capra written by Robert Sklar and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank 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.
Author : Leland Poague
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521380669
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Another Frank Capra written by Leland Poague and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Frank Capra
Publisher : Vireo Book, A
ISBN 13 : 9781947856301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Cry Wilderness written by Frank Capra and published by Vireo Book, A. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-published 1966 novel by legendary film director Frank Capra finally in print for the first time "If you, too, feel like wandering, come along and help me unravel this odd tale--a tale full of half-truths, whole-truths, and no-truths at all." So begins Frank Capra's never published, and often speculated about novel of his favorite place--Silver Lake, nestled in the jagged cliffs of the eastern Sierra Nevadas. Capra casts the fictional Frank Capra in the lead roll of this novel of environmental and humanitarian preservation. As tourism comes back to the decimated boom towns of the eastern Sierras, Frank Capra finds himself, along with a do-good cop named Lefty, at the center of a scandal. That scandal being that they provided food and protection to two men living off the grid in the wilderness, while the powers that be have been desperately trying to clear the men out of the area, being not the kind of folk they want in their towns. In a story that only Frank Capra can tell, the David and Goliath of small-town tourism politics comes to a head in the wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas.Cry Wilderness is a deeply humane novel about the ways in which people caring for one another ultimately triumphs over oppression.
Author : Joe Saltzman
Publisher : Norman Lear Center USC
ISBN 13 : 0971401810
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film written by Joe Saltzman and published by Norman Lear Center USC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Rawitsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857737074
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons written by Elizabeth Rawitsch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and '40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. However, as Elizabeth Rawitsch argues, Capra's construction of national identity did not occur within an exclusively national context. She points out that many of his films are actually set in, or include sequences set in, China, Latin America, the Philippines and the South Seas. Featuring in-depth textual analysis supported by original archival research, Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons explains that Capra's view of what constituted 'America' changed over time, extending its boundaries to embrace countries often far from the United States. Complicating Edward Said's theory of Orientalism as a strict binary in which the West constructs the East as an inferior 'other', it demonstrates that East and West often intermingle in films such as The Bitter Tea of General Yen and in Capra's orientation documentaries for World War II American servicemen; Capra imagined a kind of global community, albeit one with heavy undertones of British and American imperialism. Investigating shifts in what Capra's America has meant over time, both to Capra and to those who have watched and studied his films, this innovative book offers a startlingly fresh perspective on one of the most iconic figures in American film history.
Author : Frank Capra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Frank Capra: the Name Above the Title written by Frank Capra and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan J. Cavallero
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025203614X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers written by Jonathan J. Cavallero and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American 'imagined community,' others have ignored or even denied their background . . . Cavallero's exploration of the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola,and Tarantino demonstrates how immigrant Italians fought prejudice, how later generations positioned themselves in relation to their predecessors, and how the American cinema, usually seen as a cultural instituion that works to assimlate, has also served as a forum where assimilation was resisted." -- Book cover.
Author : Frank Capra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Frank Capra: the Name Above the Title written by Frank Capra and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles J. Maland
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Frank Capra written by Charles J. Maland and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early cinematic career of Frank Capra to the psychologically revealing films of Martin Scorsese, the books in this series offer an authoritative guide to the study of film and its trends by studying individual filmmakers and cinematic movements.
Author : Louis Black
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477315446
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book CinemaTexas Notes written by Louis Black and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students and the public. Dubbed CinemaTexas, the program offered viewers a wide variety of films—old and new, mainstream, classic, and cult—at a time when finding and watching films after their first run was very difficult and prohibitively expensive. For each film, RTF graduate students wrote program notes that included production details, a sampling of critical reactions, and an original essay that placed the film and its director within context and explained the movie’s historical significance. Over time, CinemaTexas Program Notes became more ambitious and were distributed around the world, including to luminaries such as film critic Pauline Kael. This anthology gathers a sampling of CinemaTexas Program Notes, organized into four sections: “USA Film History,” “Hollywood Auteurs,” “Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents,” and “America’s Shadow Cinema.” Many of the note writers have become prominent film studies scholars, as well as leading figures in the film, TV, music, and video game industries. As a collection, CinemaTexas Notes strongly contradicts the notion of an effortlessly formed American film canon, showing instead how local film cultures—whether in Austin, New York, or Europe—have forwarded the development of film studies as a discipline.
Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698151577
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Five Came Back written by Mark Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever Here is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors—John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra—changed World War II, and how, in turn, the war changed them. In a move unheard of at the time, the U.S. government farmed out its war propaganda effort to Hollywood, allowing these directors the freedom to film in combat zones as never before. They were on the scene at almost every major moment of America’s war, shaping the public’s collective consciousness of what we’ve now come to call the good fight. The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, Five Came Back provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood’s role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go, and who came back. “Five Came Back . . . is one of the great works of film history of the decade.” --Slate “A tough-minded, information-packed and irresistibly readable work of movie-minded cultural criticism. Like the best World War II films, it highlights marquee names in a familiar plot to explore some serious issues: the human cost of military service, the hypnotic power of cinema and the tension between artistic integrity and the exigencies of war.” --The New York Times
