American Vision

The Films of Frank Capra

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by Raymond Carney

Wesleyan University Press

Due/Published February 1996, 510 pages, paper

ISBN 0819563013

In this book, Ray Carney places the work of Frank Capra in the great tradition of American transcendentalism--along with paintings by Homer, Eakins, Sargeant, and Hopper and the writings of Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, and William and Henry James, among others.