Elia kazans autobiography
- Kazan's autobiography is a long, brooding, and fascinating recall of his eventful life.
- Elia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography.
- Elia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography.
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A Life by Elia Kazan (Hardcover First Edition)
Published by Alfred A Knopf, 1988
Hardcover
First Edition
848 pages
9.5x6.5 inches
Near Fine book and dust jacket. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.
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.
Published by Alfred A Knopf, 1988
Hardcover
First Edition
848 pages
9.5x6.5 inches
Near Fine book and dust jacket. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.
Elia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveal
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Elia Kazan
Subject:'An Alibi' should have been the title instead of 'A Life'
This book is an insult to all the people mentioned that were no longer alive to tell their side of the story . Kazan comes across as selfish ,greedy, envious ... , vain , insecure , gossipy , promiscuous and most importantly hypocritical . His obsession with categorizing women as ' wife worthy or not ' ( as if he or his promiscuous friends who also liked to pass judgement were ' husbands' themselves ) reeks not only of pure hypocrisy but also goes to show that his affairs had been nowhere as ' educational ' as he claims cause his view of women was very simplistic and more often than not a pure Madonna/Whore thing . In fact one of the women he claims was not ' a wife ' ( although he almost married her himself cause consistency is key with Kazan ) ended up in a stable marriage , settled down , quit Hollywood and was married only once and never divorced ( till her death ) . It seems like life proved Kazan wrong or maybe ( and reading this b
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The Voice of a Rebel
In 1999, four years before his death at age ninety-four, a shaky-looking Elia Kazan appeared on prime-time television to receive an honorary Oscar. To many watching at home, Kazan’s brief turn was an obligatory detour on the way to what proved that year’s main event, the upset victory of Shakespeare in Love over Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan as Best Picture. Most American moviegoers don’t know most film directors’ names, and Kazan had not made a film in more than twenty years.
Even so, the moment caused more of a stir than was usual for such pro forma industry rites. When Kazan came on stage after an introduction by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro (who had starred in Kazan’s final film, The Last Tycoon, in 1976), the reaction shots of the audience at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion exposed the public to the half-century-old cold war conflict that the impending award had reawakened in Hollywood. Many down front rose for a standing ovation, including Warren Beatty, whose stardom was catalyzed by Kazan (in the
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