CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Anatomy of a House Director: Capra, Cohn, and Columbia in the 1930s
Thomas Schatz
2 A Leap into the Void: Frank Capra's Apprenticeship to Ideology
Robert Sklar
3 It Is (Not) a Wonderful Life: For a Counter-reading of Frank Capra
Vito Zagarrio
4 Capra and the Abyss: Self-interest versus the Common Good in Depression America
Charles J. Maland
5 It Happened One Night: The Recreation of the Patriarch
Richard Maltby
6 Roosevelt, Arnold, and Capra, (or) the Federalist-Populist Paradox
Guiliana Muscio
7 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Democratic Forums and Representational Forms
Charles Wolfe
8 Studio Metamorphosis: Columbia's Emergence from Poverty Row
Brian Taves
9 Notes on Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1926-1941, with a New Afterword
Edward Buscombe
Bibliography
Filmography
About the Contributors
Index
