Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction to It's a Wonderful Life and key figures in its production history Analysis of It's a Wonderful Life Reception and Afterlife Notes Credits

Promotional Information

A study of Frank Capra's much-loved It's a Wonderful Life (1946) in the BFI Film Classics series

About the Author

Michael Newton is Lecturer in English at Leiden University, Netherlands. He is the author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (2002), Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981 (2012), and of Kind Hearts and Coronets (2003) and Rosemary's Baby (2020) in the BFI Film Classics series.