Smoodin Regarding Frank Capra

Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930–1960
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8626-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smoodin, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).