Kazan on Kazan - Softcover

Michel Ciment

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571192173 ISBN 13: 9780571192175

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2000

Synopsis

Elia Kazan is the director responsible for films such as On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata! and East of Eden - to name but a few. With Marlon Brando and James Dean he inaugurated a new age of screen acting - one closely connected to the New York Method school - which has left a lasting impression on American movies. A Greek immigrant - who immortalized his family's struggle to reach the New World in his film America, America - he was ferociously committed to dealing with the problems that beset American society: trade unions in On the Waterfront; anti-semitism in The Gentlemen's Agreement; media manipulation in A Face in the Crowd; and ecology in Wild River. His demand for an authentic intensity of performance from his actors brought a powerful emotionalism to American movies and created moments of cinema that live forever in the memory. This book chronicles, in his own words, the career of a director who re-defined American film acting.

About this title

Synopsis:

An account of the work of 1950s' Hollywood film director Elia Kazan who inaugurated a new age of screen acting, based on the New York Method school, which brought a powerful emotionalism to American films. Kazan's films deal with the problems that beset American society and include On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire and East of Eden.

About the Author:

Jeff Young is the director of the film, Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up To Me and is the author of Kazan on Kazan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0571192173
• ISBN 13: 9780571192175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368