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Frank Capra
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Author : Joseph McBride
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2011-06-02
Frank Capra written by Joseph McBride and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Frank Capra The Name Above The Title
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Author : Frank Capra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Frank Capra The Name Above The Title written by Frank Capra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Capra, Frank, 1897- categories.
Frank Capra
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Author : Frank Capra
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2004
Frank Capra written by Frank Capra and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
American Vision
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Author : Raymond Carney
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1986-10-31
American Vision written by Raymond Carney and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-10-31 with History categories.
Professor Carney analyses Frank Capra's life as well as the broad cultural context of his films.
Another Frank Capra
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Author : Leland Poague
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994
Another Frank Capra written by Leland Poague and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Frank Capra
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Author : Charles J. Maland
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1980
Frank Capra written by Charles J. Maland and has been published by Boston : Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Motion picture producers and directors categories.
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.
Tribute Frank Capra
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Author : Matthew J. Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Bluewater Productions
Release Date :
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Frank Capra is an icon of American popular culture. But he is so much more than simply the director of It's a Wonderful Life, the most beloved Christmas movie of all time. StormFront's comic book biography traces the course of Capra's life from penniless immigrant to Hollywood royalty, and examines his unique and invaluable contribution to America's war effort.
Frank Capra
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Author : Richard Griffith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
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Frank Capra
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Author : Richard Glatzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Frank Capra
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Author : Robert Sklar
language : en
Publisher: Culture And The Moving Image
Release Date : 1998
Frank Capra written by Robert Sklar and has been published by Culture And The Moving Image this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Performing Arts categories.
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.