the cinema of democracy in the era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan /
Sam B. Girgus
xii, 258 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Filmography: 248-250
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index
Ethnics and roughnecks: the making of the Hollywood renaissance -- A cinema for democracy: John Ford and the crisis of modernity, myth, and meaning -- Gender and American character: Frank Capra -- Revisioning heroic masculinity: from Ford to Hawks and Zinnemann -- An American conscience: Elia Kazan's long journey home -- Losing tomorrow: George Stevens and the American idea -- Conclusion: film and America after the Hollywood Renaissance
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Motion picture producers and directors-- United States-- Production and direction