Songs of Innocence and Experience : Romance in the Cinema of Frank Capra.
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 b...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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 ... |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and filmography. |
| ISBN: | 9781443850957 1443850950 |
