Wes D Gehring
Biographic Data
| ID | 2076233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wes D Gehring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wes D |
| FAMILY NAME | Gehring |
| SIGNATURE | GEHRING W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ball State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Populism and the Capra Legacy
Traditionally identified with screwball comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a conduit for populist concerns and issues. In this book, Gehring examines the influence of both Will Rogers and Frank Capra on modern populist movies, providing important background on Capra's links to the crackerbarrel personality of Rogers. He follows this theme forward, examining the populist roots in such films asThe Electric Horseman,Field of Dreams,Dav…
Hero
Oh, why couldn’t it have been Robert?“
Television's other Groucho
Poems
Poems
Poems
Screwball Comedy
W.C. Fields
Charlie Chaplin
The Electric Horseman
Mae West
McCarey vs. Capra
McCarey vs. Capra
Mae West
The Electric Horseman
Charlie Chaplin
Screwball Comedy
W.C. Fields
Poems
Poems
Poems
Television's other Groucho
Oh, why couldn’t it have been Robert?“
Populism and the Capra Legacy
Traditionally identified with screwball comedies, Frank Capra has seldom been considered a conduit for populist concerns and issues. In this book, Gehring examines the influence of both Will Rogers and Frank Capra on modern populist movies, providing important background on Capra's links to the crackerbarrel personality of Rogers. He follows this theme forward, examining the populist roots in such films asThe Electric Horseman,Field of Dreams,Dav…
Hero
Art (10 works) · Literature (4 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Capra (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Comedy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works)