This fully annotated selection of Elia Kazanâs letters reveals all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such a towering figure in American theater and film.
Kazanâs determination to be a âsincere, conscious, practicing artistâ 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.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Essays & Correspondence
- Letters
- Essays & Correspondence
Publisher : Vintage
Author : Kazan, Elia
Language : English
Edition : Annotated
Published :2016-03-08
Number Of Pages : 672
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1101911395
ISBN-13 : 9781101911396
Item weight : 2 lb
Dimensions : 1.5 in x 6.1 in x 9.1 in
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