The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan

Name: The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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This fully annotated selection of Elia Kazan's letters reveals all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such a towering figure in American theater and film. Kazan's determination to be a "sincere, conscious, practicing artist" resounds through every phase of his career: his apprenticeship with the Group Theatre, his co-founding of the Actors Studio and co-direction of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, and his innovative directing on Broadway (A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman) and in Hollywood (On the Waterfront and East of Eden). Kazan collaborated with some of the greatest writers of the era, including Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and John Steinbeck. His letters to and about Marlon Brando, James Dean, Warren Beatty, Robert De Niro, and others are full of insights on acting and directing. We see his heated dealings with studio moguls, his principled resistance to censorship, the upheavals of testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. We glimpse his inner life in his startlingly candid letters to his first wife and those to and about his children. The Selected Letters provides an extraordinary portrait of a complex, intense, monumentally talented man who engaged the political, moral, and artistic currents of the twentieth century.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 674
Release Date:: 2016-03-08
Publication Date:: 2016-03-08
Publisher:: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1101911395
ISBN13:: 9781101911396
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1135 g
Height:: 15.6 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 3.9 cm

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