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Cambridge Studies in Film

Cambridge Studies in Film

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Format : Paperback / softback
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Editors : Dudley Andrew | William Rothman
ISBN : 9780521389785
Publication Year : 2005
Language : English

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.