Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons: American Identity and the Cinema of International Relations

by Elizabeth Rawitsch

Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and '40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. However, as Elizabeth Rawitsch argues, Capra's construction of national identity did not occur within an exclusively national context. She...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780768699
• ISBN13: 9781780768694
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"