Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino by Cavallero, Jonathan J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Frank Capra : ethnic denial and its impossibility -- Martin Scorsese : confined and defined by ethnicity -- Nancy Savoca : ethnicity, class, and gender -- Francis Ford Coppola : ethnic nostalgia in The godfather trilogy -- Quentin Tarantino : ethnicity and the postmodern -- Conclusion : ancestral legacies and history's lessons.…”


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Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino by Cavallero, Jonathan J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Frank Capra : ethnic denial and its impossibility -- Martin Scorsese : confined and defined by ethnicity -- Nancy Savoca : ethnicity, class, and gender -- Francis Ford Coppola : ethnic nostalgia in The godfather trilogy -- Quentin Tarantino : ethnicity and the postmodern -- Conclusion : ancestral legacies and history's lessons.…”
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Better left unsaid Victorian novels, Hays Code films, and the benefits of censorship by Gilbert, Nora

Table of Contents: “…Thackeray and Preston Sturges -- For sophisticated eyes only : Jane Austen and George Cukor -- Beyond censorship : Charles Dickens and Frank Capra -- The thrill of the fight : Charlotte Brontë and Elia Kazan -- Postscript : Oscar Wilde and Mae West.…”
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Better left unsaid : Victorian novels, Hays Code films, and the benefits of censorship by Gilbert, Nora

Table of Contents: “…Thackeray and Preston Sturges -- For sophisticated eyes only : Jane Austen and George Cukor -- Beyond censorship : Charles Dickens and Frank Capra -- The thrill of the fight : Charlotte Brontë and Elia Kazan -- Postscript : Oscar Wilde and Mae West.…”
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Journalism in the movies by Ehrlich, Matthew C., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Screwball Comedy and Frank Capra""; ""4. Citizen Kane""; ""5. News in a Noir World""; ""6. …”
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The Academy and the award : the coming of age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by Davis, Bruce (Former Executive Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- A little figure for Cedric Gibbons -- A system evolves -- The Hays incursion -- ...And sciences --- Academy washed up : ash can looms -- Better than precious ointment -- Frank Capra's new deal -- Honorary awards -- Bette Davis and the war -- Postwar and Cold War -- Straining at the leash -- Into the modern era -- Oscar full-blown.…”
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MGM holiday collection

Table of Contents: “….) / produced and directed by Frank Capra ; screenplay by Hal Kanter, Harry Tugend.…”

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MGM holiday collection.

Table of Contents: “….) / produced and directed by Frank Capra ; screenplay by Hal Kanter, Harry Tugend.…”

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How Hollywood Does It - Creating the Magic of Film - Directing.

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Kafka Americana by Lethem, Jonathan

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Discovering James Stewart.

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Levinas and the cinema of redemption : time, ethics, and the feminine / Sam B. Girgus. by Girgus, Sam B., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…American transcendence : Levinas and a short history of an American idea in film -- Frank Capra and James Stewart : time, transcendence, and the other -- The changing face of American redemption : Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, and Denzel Washington -- Sex, art, and Oedipus : The unbearable lightness of being -- Fellini and La dolce vita : documentary, decadence, and desire -- Antonioni and L'avventura : transcendence, the body, and the feminine.…”


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Levinas and the cinema of redemption : time, ethics, and the feminine by Girgus, Sam B., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…American transcendence : Levinas and a short history of an American idea in film -- Frank Capra and James Stewart : time, transcendence, and the other -- The changing face of American redemption : Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, and Denzel Washington -- Sex, art, and Oedipus : The unbearable lightness of being -- Fellini and La dolce vita : documentary, decadence, and desire -- Antonioni and L'avventura : transcendence, the body, and the feminine.…”
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Alternative worlds in Hollywood cinema : resonance between realms by Walters, James (James R.)

Table of Contents: “…Establishing contexts -- Imagined worlds -- Making it home : The wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming ,1939) & The woman in the window (Fritz Lang, 1944) -- Return to innocence : Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Michael Gondry, 2004) -- Potential worlds -- Reclaiming the real : It's a wonderful life (Frank Capra, 1946) -- The search for tomorrow : Groundhog day (Harold Ramis, 1993) -- Other worlds -- Life beyond reason : Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli, 1954) -- Rehearsal space : Pleasantville (Gary Ross, 1998).…”


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Alternative worlds in Hollywood cinema : resonance between realms by Walters, James (James R.)

Table of Contents: “…Establishing contexts -- Imagined worlds -- Making it home : The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming,1939) & The Woman in the window (Fritz Lang, 1944) -- Return to innocence : Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Michael Gondry, 2004) -- Potential worlds -- Reclaiming the real : It's a wonderful life (Frank Capra, 1946) -- The search for tomorrow : Groundhog day (Harold Ramis, 1993) -- Other worlds -- Life beyond reason : Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli, 1954) -- Rehearsal space : Pleasantville (Gary Ross, 1998).…”
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Meet John Doe.

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Meet John Doe

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Class, language, and American film comedy by Beach, Christopher, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…A troubled paradise: utopia and transgression in comedies of the early 1930s -- Working ladies and forgotten men: class divisions in romantic comedy, 1934-1937 -- The split-pea soup and the succotash: Frank Capra's 1930s comedies and the subject of class -- Is class necessary?…”


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We're in the money: Depression America and its films. by Bergman, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…The Mob and the Search for Authority, 1933-1937 -- 10. Frank Capra and the Screwball Comedy, 1931-1941 -- 11. …”


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Conversations with the great moviemakers of Hollywood's golden age at the American Film Institute

Table of Contents: “…Harold Lloyd -- Raoul Walsh -- King Vidor -- Fritz Lang -- Frank Capra -- Howard Hawks -- James Wong Howe -- Mervyn Leroy -- Rouben Mamoulian -- George Folsey -- William Wyler -- George Stevens -- William Clothier -- Alfred Hitchcock -- George Cukor -- Billy Wilder -- John Huston -- Ray Bradbury -- Elia Kazan -- Fred Zinnemann -- David Lean -- Stanley Cortez -- Robert Wise -- Ernest Lehman -- Gene Kelly -- Richard Brooks -- Stanley Kramer -- Hal Wallis -- Jean Renoir -- Federico Fellini -- Ingmar Bergman -- Satyajit Ray.…”


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