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. 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.
Détails du livre
Format
Broché
Pages
308 pages
Langue
Anglais
Publié
Nov 24, 2005
Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Éditions
2 editions
ISBN-10
052138978X
ISBN-13
9780521389785