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| Title | : | Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1604738383 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 800 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
Using newly declassified U.S. Deeds Goes to Town, and Meet John Doe.. A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy. Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra’s life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life). government documents about Capra’s response to being considered a possible “subversive” during th
Want revenge? Write a biography! Robert K. Schmidt One gets the same feeling finishing Frank Capra's autobiography The Name Above the Title as one does finishing a Capra film: thrilled with the zigs and zags of life and optimistic about one's own future.But following up The Name Above The Title with Catastrophe of Success is akin to washing down Thanksgiving dinner with a rotten-egg-and-sour-grape smoothie. McBride has tainted a seven year odyssey of painstakingly documented research (175 interviews! weeks with Capra's personal papers! archive searches! FOIA releases! federal dec. Informative and honest account of Capra's complex dualism A central question emerges from of the various criticisms leveled at Joseph McBride's Frank Capra; The Catastrophe of Success, which boil down to this: does McBride have an axe to grind with regards to Frank Capra? Apparently a number of Capra loyalists believe this to be the case and consider his book as something of a hit piece. This criticism of his criticism, however does not resonate with me. In my view any book as painstakingly researched and accurately told as McBride's is perfectly capable of proving that it's observation. Good but not great. This is an outstanding book for a fan of Frank Capra, but it cannot possibly be definitive. Mr. McBride has devoted his energies to refuting Mr. Capra's autobiography, not to illuminating his work.The book reads like a grudge in passages. Many illuminative paragraphs end, unfortunately, in statements that reflect negatively on Mr. Capra, for no other purpose than to degrade his achievement or importance. Also, Mr. McBride neglects the technical achievement of Mr. Capra in his works. However, in spite of his spiteful coverage of t
Photos. In a canvas crowded with stars like Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Stewart, Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper, McBride convincingly paints a great director who lost his touch after the late 1940s, unable to adjust to postwar Hollywood or to function independently. Spurning his ethnic roots, ashamed of his parents, Capra lusted to be accepted by mainstream America. He was affiliated with conservative Republicans, spied on labor in the 1930s for powerful producers and collaborated surreptitiously with the McCarthyite witch hunt. He analyzes Capra's reactionary idealization of small-town America and the misogynist undertones of his films. From Publishers Weekly Hollywood's champion of the "common man" during the Depression, director Frank Capra (1897-1991) kept the American dream alive with films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's A Wonderful Life . Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Biographer of O
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