Title: Meet John Doe : Frank Capra, director /
Authors: Wolfe, Charles, 1949-; Capra, Frank, 1897-1991.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Capra, Frank,; Meet John Doe.
Contents: I. Introduction -- Meet John Doe: Authors, audiences, and endings / Charles Wolfe -- Frank Capra: A biographical sketch -- II. Meet John Doe -- Credits and cast -- The continuity script -- Notes on the continuity script -- Variant endings -- III. Contexts, reviews, and commentaries -- A. Reports and recollections -- "An inspiriting experiment" / Lewis Jacobs, "Film directors at work: Frank Capra" -- Theodore Strauss, "Mr. Riskin hits the road" -- Letter from Frank Capra to viewer -- Frank Capra, "Five endings in search of an author" -- B. Reviews -- The New York Times / Bosley Crowther -- Los Angeles Times / Edwin Schallert -- New Movies / James Shelley Hamilton -- Direction / Jay Leyda -- New Masses / Herbert Biberman -- The New Republic / Otis Ferguson -- C. COmmentaries -- Richard Glatzer, "Meet John Doe: An end to social mythmaking" -- Dudley Andrew, "Productive discord in the system: Hollywood Meets John Doe" -- Nick Browne, "System of production/system of representation: Industry context and ideological form in Capra's Meet John Doe" -- IV. Filmography and bibliography.