Capra's films appeal to cultural studies critics because they can be treated generically at three different levels. First, the creation of the films is treated as being the product of general cultural structures and forces. The characters and events in the films are treated as representing these structures and forces. Second, the characters and events in the films are treated as representing abstract structures and forces. And third, the viewers of the films are understood to be approaching them in accordance with generic cultural structures and forces.
Experience is understood systematically and impersonally.
In this sense, there are no individuals in cultural studies. The system swallows up its members. There is no space left in which individuals can move freely. The most important part of us is what belongs to us alone. The mutability, creativity, and unpredictability of our individual beliefs, feelings, and fantasies define a private, personal space into which ideological analysis cannot reach.