Nov 12, 2022 Biblio: Capra, Frank (1971). Frank Capra, The Name Above the Title. New York: The Macmillan Company. McBride, Joseph (1992). Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. New York: Simon & Schuster. Scherle, Victor; Levy, William Turner (1977). The Films of Frank Capra. Secaucus: The Citadel Press. Scott, Ian (2006). In Capra’s Shadow. Lexington: […]

Geremy Butler, Star Texts Wayne State University Press, 1991. 382pp pages Theories of film and television have traditionally neglected the significance of performance and the many functions of the screen star’s image. Editing, framing, composition, and camera movement concerned early theorists more than theater-based acting. What was lost in this emphasis on elements of film […]

Through mediums like Westerns, country music, and detective novels, John Nelson explains how we internalize our American values without even knowing it.

Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across these directors’ careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, […]