Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons

Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and ''40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It''s a Wonderful Life. However, as Elizabeth Rawitsch argues, Capra''s construction of national identity did no...