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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 the stage and bringing a new realism and intensity of performance to the screen. His various achievements include the original Broadway productions of "All My Sons", "A Streetcar Named Desire", and "Death of a Salesman" and such Hollywood films as "Brando's Streetcar", "On the Waterfront", "East of Eden", and "Splendor in the Grass". These enormously popular works, in turn, shaped the social, sexual, and political ideas of a generation. The result is an intelligent and lively biography and social history.
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 the year's best biographies."
Library Journal "Schickel has a razor-sharp understanding of the many ways in which his subject's life and work affected one another."
Martin Scorsese "A worthy companion to the director's own autobiography...immensely likeable."
The Economist "A splendid, subtle, literate biography of one of the grand creative artists of theater and film in our time."
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "This analysis is unsparingly thorough...Schickel's forceful, personalized criticism becomes as attention grabbing as Kazan's body of work."
Publishers Weekly "Richard Schickel has produced the first 'life' of Kazan...[with] an impressive knowledge of the terrain [and] soundly balanced judgments."
Los Angeles Times Book Review "...contains not a single dull moment for those interested in the behind-the-scenes aspects of theater and movies..."
New York Press "Outstanding...Perhaps, thanks to Schickel's biography, history will once again remember Kazan primarily for his accomplishments, not his testimony."
Grand Rapids Press "One of those exhilarating publishing rarities
the ideal writer for the ideal subject."
Buffalo News "Theater and film buffs
not to mention scholars
will revel in this astute explication of a working life."
New York Sun
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 the year's best biographies."
Library Journal "Schickel has a razor-sharp understanding of the many ways in which his subject's life and work affected one another."
Martin Scorsese "A worthy companion to the director's own autobiography...immensely likeable."
The Economist "A splendid, subtle, literate biography of one of the grand creative artists of theater and film in our time."
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "This analysis is unsparingly thorough...Schickel's forceful, personalized criticism becomes as attention grabbing as Kazan's body of work."
Publishers Weekly "Richard Schickel has produced the first 'life' of Kazan...[with] an impressive knowledge of the terrain [and] soundly balanced judgments."
Los Angeles Times Book Review "...contains not a single dull moment for those interested in the behind-the-scenes aspects of theater and movies..."
New York Press "Outstanding...Perhaps, thanks to Schickel's biography, history will once again remember Kazan primarily for his accomplishments, not his testimony."
Grand Rapids Press "One of those exhilarating publishing rarities
the ideal writer for the ideal subject."
Buffalo News "Theater and film buffs
not to mention scholars
will revel in this astute explication of a working life."
New York Sun