Frank Capra's Eastern horizons : American identity and the cinema of international relations / Elizabeth Rawitsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawitsch, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

Cinema and society.

Cinema and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capra, Frank, 1897-1991--Criticism and interpretation.

Capra, Frank.

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the core values of the United States. However, as Elizabeth Rawitsch argues, Capra's construction of national identity did not occur within an exclusively national context. This innovative book offers a startlingly fresh perspective on one of the most iconic figures in American film history.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Mr. Capra Goes to China? The Far East, Authorship, and National Ideology

1. "Give Her Americanism": Frank Capra, National Ideology, and the Global Community

2. "Can You Be Both?" Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Capra's America, 1922-1961

3. "Where the Fruit Trees Look Like Women and the Women Look Like Fruit Trees": The Bitter Tea of General Yen and the Blurring of the East/West Binary

4. "Sometimes He Calls It Utopia": Lost Horizon and the Politics of Imperialism

5. "A Free World and a Slave World": The Fractured Far East in The Battle of China and Know Your Enemy: Japan

6. "Tahiti? Inside Me?" Frank Capra, South Sea Exoticism, and American Domesticity

Conclusion. Mapping a "United States of the World": Authorship and the Cinema of International Relations

Notes

Filmography

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.

ISBN:

9780857737076

0857737074

9780857725578

0857725572

9780755694808

0755694805

OCLC:

1128168065