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  Frank Capra (1897-1991)
Capra was building a distinguished academic record when his father, having just bought a lemon grove with his savings, died in a farm accident, a tragedy that would resonate in several of the director’s future films.
Capra’s touch was already apparent in the comic story of a Belgian war veteran, a wide-eyed innocent who goes to America in search of a girl, his pen pal during the war, and ends up defeating a corrupt gang of bootleggers that had taken over her small town.
Capra eagerly met the challenge of sound and was in the forefront of those seeking to liberate early talkies from the confinement of the sound stage.
www.gildasattic.com /fcapra.html   (4942 words)

  
 Capra and the Critics
All of the scholarly commentators on Capra's work (and on that of most other directors) assume, seemingly without question, that the function of criticism is to move from relatively superficial and unimportant perceptual events (everything you actually hear and see on the screen) to a realm of profound, and invariably invisible or hidden, "deep" meanings.
But in the case of Capra (and many other filmmakers) what American academic critics seem not to have recognized is that their one-style-fits-all critical procedure may do violence to the experience they attempt to characterize.
The only problem (which is, in Capra's view, of course no problem at all, but a cause for celebration) is that her symbols won't stand still the way she wants them to.
people.bu.edu /rcarney/capra/capracrit.shtml   (2765 words)

  
 The Catholic Vision of Frank Capra
Capra's biographers and critics agree that the power and consistency of the filmmaker's moral vision are rooted in his own experiences.
Capra's films celebrate the values associated with life in a community — solidarity and selflessness in particular — but without the close connection to ethnic identity that is so important to the second-generation Italian-Americans represented by Coppola, Scorsese, and Michael Cimino.
Capra said on several occasions that the underlying idea of his movies was actually the Sermon on the Mount.
catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0154.html   (3244 words)

  
 THE EMERGING NEW CULTURE with FRITJOF CAPRA, Ph.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
CAPRA: Well, in the schools they say that you can't teach management the way they used to teach it, because the problems that arise today cannot be neatly pigeonholed as problems of finance, marketing strategy, research and development.
CAPRA: I think it is. I must tell you I know that you have done a lot of studies in that, and I'm not so interested in it professionally, just simply because you can't do everything, so this is the part that I've not devoted much energy and interest to.
CAPRA: Right, in any kind of organization, and especially in organizations that work for social change, the level of consciousness, where we talk about meaning and values and ethics, is the one that is really the driving force.
www.intuition.org /txt/capra.htm   (3805 words)

  
 Capra: A memorial essay written when Capra died
Their Capra is a cinematic Norman Rockwell—sentimental and nougatty, defending family values, celebrating small-town life, and championing (as the commentators never tire of repeating) "the common man"—whoever in the world that might be.
Their Capra was someone out of a mythical American golden age, a man who never existed in a past that never was, someone quaint and antiquated and infinitely distant from the present moment, like Santa Claus someone adults love but know that only children or Walt Disney really believe in.
Capra demonstrates how imperiled our identities are, how easily we can lose ourselves in systems that make us over in their image, even as, like the character who plays "Doe," we may not even realize that we are giving ourselves away.
people.bu.edu /rcarney/capra/memorial.shtml   (1603 words)

  
 Frank Capra at Reel Classics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Capra was nominated six times for Best Director Oscars, and took home three of the statuettes over the course of his career.
Capra won the 1936 Oscar for Best Director, and the film was also nominated for Best Picture.
Posters from MEET JOHN DOE (1941) with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) with Cary Grant and Peter Lorre.
www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Capra/capra.htm   (194 words)

  
 Frank Capra, The Capra-esque Effect
Capra stood up to accept what he thought was his award.
That same year, Capra was nominated as President of the Academy, at a time when many of the members were threatening to boycott Academy functions, including the Oscar's, in light of what they felt was unfair practices and treatment, on the part of the Academy and studio bosses.
Capra was discovered once again in the 1970's, as his films made their way onto critics lists, and one of his films, It's A Wonderful Life, turned up as a perennial Christmas classic on television.
www.angelfire.com /film/robbed/capra.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Greg Capra: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Capra is vice president and co-founder of Pristine Capital Management, Inc., where he makes the daily trading decisions in the company accounts.
Capra is also the editor of Pristine's Chart of the Week, which is read, respected and used by thousands of traders worldwide.
Capra became a voracious student of the market and became especially interested in the quantitative analysis of market movements.
www.zoominfo.com /people/capra_greg_969888.aspx   (526 words)

  
 Frank Capra | Biography Timeline
Often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Capra's exploitation of the stylistic and narrative resources of cinema was, in fact, extremely self-conscious and adventurous in ways typical of artistic modernism.
Capra resigns, and unable to find other work in the film industry, is taken on as an assistant by Walter Ball at his film lab.
The Capras begin construction on a house, and Helen begins carrying a child, but it ends when it is found to be a life threatening ectopic pregnancy.
eeweems.com /capra/bio.html   (2182 words)

  
 DEEP FOCUS: Frank Capra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Frank Capra was born in Sicily in 1897 before immigrating to the Los Angeles with his family in 1903.
Capra went on to Columbia Pictures in 1928 and helped the studio turn itself around from a cheap, run-down operation into a major player in Hollywood.
Whether Capra "[crosses] the thin line between populist sentimentality and populist demagoguery" as film scholar Andrew Sarris believes or directly satirizes fascism, slick businessmen, and crooked politicians is something that is still argued over today.
alumni.imsa.edu /~mitch/directors/capra.html   (518 words)

  
 Capra, Frank (1897-1991) Biography | sjpc_01_package.xml
Whether or not Capra's claim has validity, there is no doubt that people all over the country flocked to the theaters during the 1930s and 1940s to see films directed by Frank Capra.
Capra's films regularly engaged political and social issues, and in his professional life he was equally active.
Capra served as the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences during a crucial period of its development.
www.bookrags.com /biography/capra-frank-1897-1991-sjpc-01   (1587 words)

  
 Capra, Smith, and Doe
Capra published an autobiography in 1971 which, along with a renewed interest in his films on college campuses, returned him to the spotlight during the '70s and early '80s.
Capra described this as the moment he realized he wanted to transcend his family's lot in life, and he realized he would have to fight for an education to do it.
Capra played up the David and Goliath element of his story to the point where his autobiography "read like a morality play, with Capra the heroic figure representing Art, and Cohn the venal figure representing Commerce."(27) His book is peppered with countless dramatic moments of principle.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA97/halnon/capra/capra.html   (4066 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Capra's Corn?
Capra’s oft-repeated thesis that big corporations too easily lose touch with the needs of ordinary people is essentially sound, and has stood the test of time.
Capra may have had this kind of criticism in mind when he said: “I thought drama was when the actors cried.
Capra’s moral urgency does sometimes get in the way of, rather than informing, his best work, but as we’ve just hinted and as we’ll soon explore further, at his best or worst he’s in interesting company.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /46/capra.htm   (2273 words)

  
 Welcome to the NEW Capra Press
Capra Press is saddened by the death of its founder, Noel Young, on May 31, 2002.
The Capra Press name, logo, and some remaining miscellaneous books were purchased in 2001 by Robert Bason, a local Santa Barbara bookseller and book lover.
Capra Press is one of the oldest private presses in Santa Barbara.
www.caprapress.com   (1142 words)

  
 Frank Capra @ Filmbug
The fact that that tone is ignored in the public perception speaks to Capra's talent in creating this dismal story, then throwing the hero into an alternative world nightmare and shattering it with a blast of pure joy and love at the end.
Capra was also the subject of a 1991 biography by Joseph McBride entitled Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success.
Frank Capra died in 1991 and was interred in the Coachella Valley Cemetery, Coachella, California.
www.filmbug.com /db/24382   (500 words)

  
 J. Capra: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Capra has spearheaded an unprecedented period of growth and new scientific discovery at OMRF since he joined the organization in 1997 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas where he was the Edwin L. Cox Distinguished Chair in Immunology and Genetics.
Capra commented, "As a scientist I admire and respect the potential of genetic research as a way in which to develop predictive tests to manage pre-diagnostic cancer risk.
Donald Capra, president of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, said while companies cannot stockpile vaccine because of the changing virus, they are developing ways to make vaccine faster.
www.zoominfo.com /people/capra_j._10209380.aspx   (468 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success: Books: Joseph McBride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Capra is largely remembered today as a director whose films champion all-American optimism in a world where good ultimately triumphs.
Capra's book is great because we get to hear Capra's own opinions on various aspects of his films, not because it's brilliantly written.
Capra is not a modest man and in his autobiography "The Name Above The Title" he should have given more credit to those talented people such as cinematographer John Walker who helped make so many of his finest films.
www.amazon.com /Frank-Capra-Catastrophe-Joseph-McBride/dp/0312263244   (2156 words)

  
 Frank Capra: Independent Profile
Capra rose to prominence as a contract director at Columbia Pictures with his successful mixture of populist drama and sentimental comedy that defined depression-era attitudes and elevated Harry Cohn's studio from Poverty Row status to one of the Big Eight majors.
Capra was suitably rewarded with his own production unit and an unusually high level of creative freedom.
Capra had adopted a "one man, one film" mantra which later generations would dub the auteur theory, which claimed that a film, like any other important work of art, should be largely the product of a single creative vision and not the offspring of a studio committee.
www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/capra_into.htm   (838 words)

  
 Frank Capra: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
Frank Capra's films contain strong elements of theological optimism, the most clear example of which is 'It's a Wonderful Life.' This film examines intersections between God and culture, the presence of glory in ordinary events, and the powerlessness of people that causes them to seek God.
Capra's story of the ultimate political outsider was promoted by exhibitors who asserted its educational value, thus entering a debate about the practicality and efficacy of teaching democratic values to adolescents and children, primarily concentrating on a domestic response.
Capra's failure to adapt the visual framework of arguments from preceding films to The Battle of China explains its temporary suppression by the United States government.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/capra.html   (9292 words)

  
 History of Capra Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although the block still survives, the name was later altered to Capra to avoid conflict with an imprint of an established eastern house.
She is one of the few people who knew Capra before it began and has been alongside ever since.
The Capra Press manuscripts and many of the historical working files are at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
www.caprapress.com /history.php   (881 words)

  
 The Systems View of Life - The Turning Point - Fritjof Capra (82)
In the following sections there is outlined some background information concerning the author - Fritjof Capra - inclusive of other publications, books and articles which he has contributed to this emergent potential for interdisciplinary advancement of the human culture and sciences, and also that of the individuals who contibute thereto.
Fritjof Capra is a theoretical high-energy physicist, author, and writer of the screenplay for the film MINDWALK.
Capra founded and served as Director of the Elmwood Institute, Berkeley, which is dedicated to nurturing new ecological visions and applying them to current social, economic and environmental problems.
www.mountainman.com.au /capra_0.html   (1046 words)

  
 It's A Wonderful Life: Frank Capra's dark side - Interesting Ideas
When Frank Capra died, it was inevitable that It's a Wonderful Life would be trotted out to demonstrate his life-affirming, joyous love of people.
Post-war prosperity (and the federal deposit insurance programs) made bank failures a relative rarity, at least for a few decades, and thrift institutions like George Bailey's building and loan in fact did help underwrite the rise of suburbia, and thus the fulfillment of some Capra-era dreams.
Capra's group of socially conscious films of the '30s reflected a reasonably coherent fear of the intensifying class conflict, fascism and militarism that seemed then to be overtaking the world.
www.interestingideas.com /ii/capra.htm   (1291 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Frank Capra
The rise of Frank Capra from sickly, abused, impoverished Sicilian immigrant to what one of his sons calls "a shaper of how we view America" is the subject of Kenneth Bowser’s Frank Capra’s American Dream.
Capra never quite believed in his own accomplishments, and in his Catholic way seemed to suffer most when he was most praised.
Before World War II, Capra’s personal demons were largely held at bay by a kind of natural buoyancy and a gratitude for what he believed America had done for him.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /23/capra.html   (553 words)

  
 Francis Capra Photos - Francis Capra News - Francis Capra Information
More Pictures Francis Capra was born on April 22, 1983 in New York, USA.Francis is from a family familiar with the entertainment business.
His father, Frank Capra III, is an assistant director to various films and movies; his grandfather, Frank Capra Jr., is the president of Screen Gems in Wilmington, North Carolina; and his great-grandfather, Frank Capra is a noted film director.
His arm tattoos include a tribute to his late father, which is the name Capra inside a cross surrounded by the words Fallen Angel.
www.tv.com /francis-capra/person/66540/summary.html   (423 words)

  
 Capra International Inc.
Gunter Rochow, President of Capra International Inc., led a two-day course on Horizontal Policy Management on behalf of Federated Press, from January 10-11, 2006, at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa.
Capra International Inc., Bluepoint Leadership Development, and CatAlliance are pleased to welcome dynamic speaker and author, Ron Crossland ("The Leader's Voice"), to a breakfast discussion on Leading Innovation.
Capra will offer further leadership workshops of this type in Ottawa in the near future, as well as elsewhere in Canada and internationally.
www.capra.net /index.php   (1782 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/capramusic
"Capra" is made up of Jeff Laliberte, Shelby Archer, Matthew Thompson, Paul Laliberte, and Kelly Blatz.
The songwriting and magic started about late December of 2005 and by April of 2006, we were booked in the studio getting ready to record 5 songs to start our wonderful journey as "Capra".
After the ashes of "A Weekend Flight", Jeff Laliberte, Paul Laliberte, and Shelby Archer decided that it was time to find some very talented people to start over with, a new drummer and singer.
www.myspace.com /capramusic   (616 words)

  
 Capra Mineral Whey - Dehydrated Goat Whey, Balancing Your Mineral Needs Through a Natural Mineral Source
Capra Mineral Whey helps prevent or correct deficiency problems.
Capra goats are not fed any pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, or growth hormones.
Since 90% of the minerals in milk are contained in the whey, CMW minerals are a natural part of the microstructure of concentrated whey.
www.cocoonnutrition.org /catalog/page_capra_mineral_whey.php   (1423 words)

  
 Random House | Books | The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought.
In The Web of Life, Capra offers a brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explanations of the properties of organisms, social systems, and ecosystems.
Capra's surprising findings stand in stark contrast to accepted paradigms of mechanism and Darwinism and provide an extraordinary new foundation for ecological policies that will allow us to build and sustain communities without diminishing the opportunities for future generations.
www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-385-47676-0   (279 words)

  
 Frank Capra — Infoplease.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Capra's naively decent American heroes triumph over the forces of greed, cynicism, corruption, or self-doubt in such films as
Among his movie-making innovations were accelerated pacing, conversational and sometimes overlapping dialogue, and previews that gauged audience reaction.
Frank Capra - Frank Capra director Born: 5/18/1897 Birthplace: Palermo, Sicily Academy Award-winning director...
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0810322.html   (313 words)

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