Frank Capra

Leland A. Poague. The Cinema of Frank Capra: An Approach to Film Comedy. Cranbury, N.J.: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1975. 252 pp. Frank Capra: The Man and His Films. Edited by Richard Glatzer and John Raeburn. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1974. 190 + xiv pp. Donald C. Willis. The Films of Frank Capra. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1974. 214 pp. Frank Capra. The Name Above the Title. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. 513 + xii pp. One of the necessary conditions for the survival of a "classic," and in Frank Kermode's view the most important, is that "we have to want it to survive" and, therefore, "take a great deal of trouble over it," perhaps "out of a kind of instinct for self-preservation."1 When the critic pays homage to a given work, in other words, he may be consciously or unconsciously expressing the hope that the area in himself which the artist has penetrated and entered into secret fellowship with, will be joined somehow to the ongoing life of the "classic." Any classic's life-span, even that of a work as well-established as King Lear, is indeterminate, Kermode goes on to say, and the critic must come to terms with the knowledge that our wanting a treasured thing to endure will not, perhaps in the majority of circumstances, be enough

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