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Ray Carney, American
Vision: The Films of Frank Capra (Hanover, N.H. University Press of
New England, 1996), 88 illustrations, paperback, 510 pages. This book
is available directly from the author for $20.
The first interdisciplinary
study of America's best-known filmmaker. In this daring and unorthodox
study, Ray Carney places the work of Frank Capra in the great tradition
of American transcendentalism–along with paintings by Homer, Eakins,
Sargent, Hopper and the writings of Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, and
William and Henry James, among others.
Interweaving wide-ranging discussions
of American literature, drama, and painting and the work of other filmmakers
with detailed analyses of such films as It's a Wonderful Life,
Meet John Doe, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Carney
finds in Capra's life and work a classic American struggle for self-expression
within the repressive structures of ordinary life. In this larger cultural
context, Capra emerges as something far more radical than the social
realist
he is often taken to be–as a visionary determined to unleash "mysterious,
distinctive, personal energies that defy social understandings or control."
American Vision was
reprinted in 1996 with a new Preface outlining recent developments in
Capra criticism, and detailing the shortcomings of current Cultural Studies
approaches to his work.
For reviews and critical responses
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Ray
Carney has the longest and most ambitious essay he has ever written about
film and philosophy in the following book. The essay is more than 40,000
words long.
A Modern Mosaic: Art and Modernism in the United States, Edited by
Townsend Ludington
(University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 225 b&w illustrations, paperback,
472 pages. This
book is available directly from this site for $29.
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The modernist movement
has shaped our era as has no other. This insightful collection
of original essays explores the impact of modernism on American
culture and the ways in which modernism remains a key to understanding
American art and society.
An impressive cast
of scholars examines works and their creators across the whole
spectrum of artistic expressionófiction and poetry, painting
and sculpture, architecture, dance, photography, and film.
In fresh and provocative essays they explore how the ideas
of modernism helped shape such artistic expressions as the
writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the paintings of Edward
Hopper, New Deal public art projects, and George Antheil's
Ballet Mècanique. Extensive use of color and black-and-white
illustrations results in a book that is as appealing visually
as it is stimulating intellectually.
The contributors
are Casey Nelson Blake, Robert Cantwell, Ray Carney, Thomas
Fahy, Lucy Fischer, John F. Kasson, William E. Leuchtenburg,
Lucinda H. MacKethan, Randy Martin, Carol J. Oja, Miles Orvell,
Joan Shelley Rubin, Jon Michael Spencer, and Maren Stange.
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For another
discussion of American painting and culture by Ray Carney, see:
"When Mind is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Doing of Thinking,"
in Morris Dickstein (ed.) The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays
in Social Thought, Law, and Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 1998), 5 photographs, paperback, 464 pages. This book
is available directly from this site for $25.
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