Elia Kazan

A Life

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by Elia Kazan

Type

Autobiographies

Subject

Director > Elia Kazan

Keywords

Elia Kazan, director, autobiography

Publishing date

1997

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 860 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-306-80804-8
978-0-306-80804-3

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Book Presentation:
Elia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, James Dean, John Steinbeck and Darryl Zanuck, and describes his directing "style" as he sees it, in terms of position, movement, pace, rhythm and his own limitations. Kazan also retraces his own decision to inform for the House Un-American Activities Committee, illuminating much of what may be obscured in McCarthy literature.

About the Author:
Elia Kazan's work includes stage productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well as films like On the Waterfront, East of Eden, and Splendor in the Grass. He is also the author of The Arrangement, America America, and The Assassins, among others.

Press Reviews:
“A huge sprawling autobiography."

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