Eric Smoodin

Regarding Frank Capra

Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using extensive archival research in fan mail, fan magazines, army services and educational records, Smoodin explores the different reception of Capra films with different popular audiences, and how the films meanings were marshalled to a variety of natio

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333845
• ISBN-10: 0822333848
• Artikelnr.: 22225869

Autorenporträt

Eric Smoodin is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. His books include Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons From the Sound Era, Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom , and Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945–1957 (with Ann Martin).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Audiences, Film Studies, and Frank Capra 1
1. The National and the Local: Ballyhoo and the U.S. Film Audience 23
2. Regulating National Markets: Chinese Censorship and The Bitter Tea of
General Yen 51
3. Film Education and Quality Entertainment for Children and Adolescents 76
4. The Business of America: Mr. Smith, John Doe, and the Politicized Viewer
119
5. Coercive Viewings: Soldiers and Prisoners Watch Movies 160
6. Politics and Pedagogy near the End of a Career: From Feature Films to
Television Production 203
Conclusion: The Contemporary Capra 236
Notes 243
Bibliography 279
Index 291