Another Frank Capra

Although he is often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Frank 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. His modernism is also evident in his repeated and strong identification with female characters. Informed by recent work in genre theory and feminist psychology, Another Frank Capra shows Capra to be a 'proto-feminist' director whose feminism has been entirely neglected by previous critics.Poague, Leland is the author of 'Another Frank Capra' with ISBN 9780521380669 and ISBN 0521380669.