A structural analysis of Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other grade: 13 University of Constance course: Reading Baz Luhrmann language: English abstract: This essay performs multiple tasks. On the one hand the narrative structureof Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life directed in 1947 shall be worked out.It's intended to show how meaning is created in this movie through anunderstanding of its specific narrative structure.On the other hand this essay will include several central ideas fromcontemporary texts in narrative theory like William Simon for example.