
Songs of Innocence and Experience : Romance in the Cinema of Frank Capra.
Title:
Songs of Innocence and Experience : Romance in the Cinema of Frank Capra.
Author:
Grabias-Zurek, Magdalena.
ISBN:
9781443850957
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY.
Abstract:
Songs of Innocence and Experience: Romance in the Cinema of Frank Capra is a study of the director's chosen movies from the perspective of three types of comedies: paradisal, purgatorial and infernal, as assigned by Dante in his Divine Comedy. Magdalena Grabias views Capra's films in two broader categories of "innocence" and "experience," where "innocence" represents Dantean paradisal level, and "experience" combines the levels of purgatory and inferno. Such a division constitutes the means t...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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