Posted: March 20th, 2013

Analyze Capra as a political filmmaker

Analyze the film director Frank Capra as a political filmmaker. Choose at least two films as well as some primary materials from the list below. Use them to examine Capra’s representations of political issues and also the ways in which the films were understood, politically, by different audiences.

the films: “American Madness” 1932
              “The bitter tea of General Yen” 1933
              “It happened one night” 1934
              “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” 1936
              “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” 1939
              “Why we fight” 1942
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