{"id":449,"date":"2014-11-04T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/?p=449"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:31:03","slug":"students-from-italian-studies-and-film-studies-learn-about-the-complexity-of-frank-capras-films-during-professor-vito-zagarrios-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2014\/11\/04\/students-from-italian-studies-and-film-studies-learn-about-the-complexity-of-frank-capras-films-during-professor-vito-zagarrios-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Students from Italian and Film Studies learn about the complexity of Frank Capra\u2019s films during professor Vito Zagarrio\u2019s lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In his lecture \u201cThe Un-Happy Ending. Re-viewing Capra, the Italian-American\u201d, Dr. Zagarrio\u00a0looked beyond the established concerns of Capra’s interpreters. He illuminated aspects of Capra’s works that were, so to speak, hiding in plain\u00a0sight. Zagarrio reached back in time before the standard canon of Capra scholarship to dig out neglected works made before the director’s Academy Award-winning 1934 film\u00a0It Happened One Night. In important early films such as\u00a0Ladies of Leisure\u00a0(1930) and\u00a0Forbidden\u00a0(1932), he discovered a despair deeper than\u00a0humiliation and more permanent than the political machinations in which Smith and Doe found themselves enmeshed.<\/p>\n

Vito Zagarrio (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi Roma Tre) is an Italian film director and scholar. He is the author of numerous volumes on the history of Italian and American cinema.<\/p>\n

The lecture was presented Monday November 3 by Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Italian Studies Program in collaboration with\u00a0The Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his lecture \u201cThe Un-Happy Ending. Re-viewing Capra, the Italian-American\u201d, Dr. Zagarrio\u00a0looked beyond the established concerns of Capra’s interpreters. He illuminated aspects of Capra’s works that were, so to speak, hiding in plain\u00a0sight. Zagarrio reached back in time before the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}