AcknowledgmentsIntroduction to It's a Wonderful Life and key figures in its production historyAnalysis of It's a Wonderful LifeReception and AfterlifeNotes Credits
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 Kind Hearts and Coronets (BFI Film Classics, 2003).