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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 as It 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.
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 as It 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.
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Legendary film director Frank Capra composed a unique American vision, but how was that vision influenced by the strategies and production style of Columbia Pictures?
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- Class, Language, and American Film Comedy by Christopher Beach in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin by Ian Scott in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together (American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism Series, No. 7) by S. Brent Plate on page 118
- Film and Authorship (Depth of Film) by Virginia Wright Wexman in Back Matter
- American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes And Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema) by Wheeler Winston Dixon in Back Matter
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