Michael Newton: It's a Wonderful Life

Cover: 9781839023484 | It's a Wonderful Life | Michael Newton | Taschenbuch | Paperback

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Beschreibung

Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own anxieties and yearnings, to all the contradictions of ordinary life, while also enacting for us the quintessence of the classic Hollywood aesthetic. Nostalgia, humour, and a tough resilience weave themselves through this movie, intertwining it with the fraught cultural moment of the end of World War II that saw its birth. It offers a still compelling merging of fantasy and realism that was utterly unique when it was first released, and has rarely been matched since.

Michael Newton's study of the film investigates the source of its extraordinary power and its long-lasting impact. He begins by introducing the key figures in the movie's production - notably director Frank Capra and star James Stewart - and traces the making of the film, and then provides a brief synopsis of the film, considering its aesthetic processes and procedures, touching on all those things that make it such an astonishing film. Newton's careful analysis explores all those aspects of the film that are fundamental to our understanding of it, particularly the way in which the film brings tragedy and comedy together. Finally, Newton tells the story of the film's reception and afterlife, accounting for its initial relative failure and its subsequent immense popularity.

Über den Autor

Michael Newton is Lecturer in English at Leiden University, Netherlands. He is the author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (2002), Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981 (2012), and of Kind Hearts and Coronets (2003) and Rosemary's Baby (2020) in the BFI Film Classics series.

Zusammenfassung

Richly illustrated with sixty stills from the film

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction to It's a Wonderful Life and key figures in its production history
Analysis of It's a Wonderful Life
Reception and Afterlife
Notes
Credits

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Theater & Film
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	BFI Film Classics
ISBN-13:	9781839023484
ISBN-10:	1839023481
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	533649
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Newton, Michael
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic British Film Institute
Abbildungen:	60 bw illus
Maße:	186 x 130 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael Newton
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.09.2023
Gewicht:	0,264 kg