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Capra, Frank - kăpˈrə, 1897–1991, American film director, b. Bisaquino, Sicily. One of the preeminent Hollywood directors of the 1930s and 40s, he produced idealistic populist movies that, sometimes amusingly and sometimes sentimentally but nearly always optimistically, celebrate the virtues of the common American. His family emigrated to the United States in 1903 and


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    Populism and the Capra Legacy » Read Now

    by Wes D. Gehring. 129 pgs.

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    Traditionally identified with "screwball" comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a conduit for populist concerns and issues. In this book, Gehring examines the influence of both Will Rogers and Frank Capra on modern populist movies, providing important background on Capra's links to the...
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    Master Space: Film Images of Capra, Lubitsch, Sternberg, and Wyler » Read Now

    by Barbara Bowman. 172 pgs.

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    This is a unique study of the use of cinematic space by four important directors in American cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s: Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, and William Wyler. Bowman examines each of their distinctive styles and diverse backgrounds and shows how these unique...
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    The Hollywood Social Problem Film: Madness, Despair, and Politics from the Depression to the Fifties (Chap. 13 "Frank Capra's Super-Shysters and Little People") » Read Now

    by Peter Roffman, Jim Purdy. 366 pgs.

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    ...picture and the relationship between production head and the individual producer or director or writer. As long as Frank Capra continued to turn out hits and fight for the...
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    "The Moral Part of the Story Was Great": Frank Capra and Film Education in the 1930s, in Velvet Light Trap » Read Now

    by Eric Smoodin. 16 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...Part of the Story Was Great": Frank Capra and Film Education in the 1930s...Education By the early 1930s, Frank Capra had started to become a directorial...to Fred J...
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    Though More Than 60 Years Old, Films of Frank Capra Stay Fresh, in Insight on the News » Read Now

    by Gary Arnold. 2 pgs.

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    ...more than 60 years old, films of Frank Capra stay fresh. by Gary Arnold...offered one of the first of the year: Frank Capra in the Thirties. Born in a Sicilian...village...
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    Politics and Politicians in American Film ("Capra" begins on pg. 93) » Read Now

    by Phillip L. Gianos. 216 pgs.

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    Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century--a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great sources of dramatic real-life political and economic conflict--the Great Depression, the Cold War--in...
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    "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet": The American Talking Film: History & Memory, 1927-1949 ("Frank Capra (1897-1991)") begins on pg. 352) » Read Now

    by Andrew Sarris. 573 pgs.

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    Andrew Sarris has long been one of America's most celebrated writers on film, author of the seminal work The American Cinema, and for decades a highly regarded critic, first for The Village Voice and more recently for The New York Observer. Now comes Sarris's definitive statement on film, in a...
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    Class, Language and American Film Comedy (Chap. 3 "'The Split-Pea Soup and the Succotash'-- Frank Capra's 1930s Comedies and the Subject of Class") » Read Now

    by Christopher Beach. 240 pgs.

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    Examining the evolution of American film comedy since the beginning of the sound era (c. 1930), Christopher Beach focuses on how language, class, and social relationships in early sound comedies by the Marx Brothers, the screwball comedies of the 1930s by Capra, Sturges and others, and 1950s...
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    Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War (Chap. 13 "'National Pride and Prejudices': Tunisian Victory") » Read Now

    by Anthony Aldgate, Jeffrey Richards. 362 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This book charts a momentous period through the eyes of thirteen key films. Examining scripts, reviews and box-office returns, not to mention a mass of official documentation from the Home Office and censorship archives, it places each film in its social and political context to explore the...
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    "Tunisian Victory" and Anglo-American Film Propaganda in World War II, in The Historian » Read Now

    by Frederic Krome. 13 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...article. In the summer of 1943 Frank Capra, the noted American filmmaker...Britain, the British requested that Frank Capra produce the American section of...how difficult...
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    'This Business of America': Fan Mail, Film Reception, and Meet John Doe, in Screen » Read Now

    by Eric Smoodin. 18 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...day, we were seeing our first Frank Capra picture, Meet John Doe. My...who wrote the above letter to Frank Capra in June 1941, typically have...cited in this essay is from...
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    'Our Mr. Sun': Religion and Science in 50s America, in History Today » Read Now

    by James Gilbert. 7 pgs.

    ...religion was the film director, Frank Capra. Like Spielberg, Capra was the...the first film, Our Mr Sun, From Frank Capra to his agent in 1954: I suddenly...FURTHER...

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