ANOTHER FRANK CAPRA by Leland A. Poague ( 9780521389785 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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ANOTHER FRANK CAPRA

By:

Leland A. Poague

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052138978X

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 September, 2005

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Film

Pages:

308

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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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