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Elia Kazan: A Biography
Richard Schickel
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Description for Elia Kazan: A Biography
Paperback. From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. This is a biography that looks at the man and his art in the context of the social, political, and cultural environments in which he lived and worked. Num Pages: 576 pages, 16 pages black and white photographs. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 203 x 53. Weight in Grams: 446.
This is an electrifying biography, by one of America's foremost film scholars, of the controversial director Elia Kazan (1909-2003), that looks at the man and his art in the context of the social, political, and cultural environments in which he lived and worked. From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. In that role, he manifestly shaped the conception and writing, as well as the presentation, of many of the period's iconic works, reshaping the values of ... Read more
This is an electrifying biography, by one of America's foremost film scholars, of the controversial director Elia Kazan (1909-2003), that looks at the man and his art in the context of the social, political, and cultural environments in which he lived and worked. From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. In that role, he manifestly shaped the conception and writing, as well as the presentation, of many of the period's iconic works, reshaping the values of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780060955120
SKU
V9780060955120
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About Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel has written many books about film, including The Disney Version, Brando: A Life in Our Times, and Clint Eastwood: A Biography. He is a film critic for Time magazine and the producer-writer-director of more than thirty documentary films about figures such as Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Elia Kazan.
Reviews for Elia Kazan: A Biography
"Breathtaking, often riotous but never excessive...[Elia Kazan] could not be a more pertinent study of a spellbinding subject."
New York Times Book Review "A scintillating and thoroughly readable new biography."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution "This sympathetic, scrupulously researched biography...vividly conveys the director's potent personality..."
Booklist (starred review) "[A] masterly meditation on a complex, conflicted, and underappreciated director... One of ... Read more
New York Times Book Review "A scintillating and thoroughly readable new biography."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution "This sympathetic, scrupulously researched biography...vividly conveys the director's potent personality..."
Booklist (starred review) "[A] masterly meditation on a complex, conflicted, and underappreciated director... One of ... Read more