Hollywood Renaissance : the Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Kapra, and Kazan
Sam B. Girgus (Author)
In this lively and original book, Sam Girgus offers a fresh look at classic films by Ford, Capra, Hawks, Zinnemann, Kazan, and Stevens, and shows how they are part of the cultural and historic debate that examines, structures, and questions what modern America means to its people, the world, and history.
1 online resource (272 pages)
9781139173186, 9780521623889, 9780521625524, 1139173189, 052162388X, 0521625521
1170307046
1. Ethnics and Roughnecks: The making of the Hollywood renaissance; 2. The cinema for democracy: John Ford; 3. Gender and American character: Frank Capra; 4. Revisioning heroic masculinity: Hawks and Zinnemann; 5. An American conscience: Elia Kazan; 6. Losing tomorrow: George Stevens; Conclusion.