Cinema as a Medium of Sentiment
Cinema as a Medium of Sentiment
This chapter looks at how Mr. Deeds Goes to Town remakes Platinum Blonde, to decisive effect for the account of Capra's sense of his medium, and at how Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in turn remakes Mr. Deeds, with an unprecedented focus on the issue of “film power” and his own wielding of it. It analyzes how Capra's relation to the film medium in these films and Meet John Doe is astutely registered in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941). It concludes by examining the multiply recursive aspects of It's a Wonderful Life.
Keywords: Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Platinum Blonde, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Meet John Doe, Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, It's a Wonderful Life
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