Capraesqueadj.
/ˌkaprəˈɛsk/, U.S. /ˌkæprəˈɛsk/ Film.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the films of Frank Capra, esp. as having a somewhat whimsical feel or a story affirming democratic values, individual decency and perseverance, and the power of the ordinary American citizen to influence community and society.
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Keatonesque1921
Eisensteinian1930
Hitchcockian1930
Wellesian1938
Capraesque1939
Fordian1940
Bergmanesque1959
Bressonian1959
Tatiesque1959
Buñuelian1962
Godardian1962
Hawksian1962
Sirkian1963
Felliniesque1965
Langian1966
Kubrickian1968
Warholian1972
Altmanesque1974
Scorsesean1977
Herzogian1979
Tarkovskian1980
Spielbergian1982
Lynchian1984
Tarantinoesque1994
1939 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) 9 May 11/3 There is a climax where the cowboy bursts in on a very swell dinner party and learns the truth, and lets fall some Capra-esque platitudes about the rich before he departs.
1953 Monthly Film Bull. Jan. 99/2 There is a germ of a Capra-esque comedy idea here, which might have been developed into a pleasing, brittle satire.
1977 Financial Times 27 May 3/5 The mixture of pursuit thriller, Capra-esque fable and parody western fails to reach boiling point.
1991 P. McGilligan George Cukor viii. 194 There was more than a tinge of Capraesque populism and idealism in the eccentric people and situations.
2003 Observer 24 Aug. (Review section) 9/2 Bringing together populist notions of an Ealingesque or Capraesque kind in which the little man is pitted against the big, anonymous organisation, together with larger ones about causation, accidents and the nature of a divine order.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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adj.1939