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Another Frank Capra

Leland Poague author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:24th Nov '05

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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.

ISBN: 9780521389785

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm

Weight: 433g

308 pages