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Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider
Brian Neve
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Hardback. In 1999, Elia Kazan received an Oscar for lifetime achievement. It was a controversial award. This book gives a reassessment of Kazan's technique with various actors, and his concern to photograph authentic behaviour. It reviews Kazan's style and debates the reception of Kazan's work and the controversy of his 1952 Congressional testimony. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 integrated b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
In 1999, Elia Kazan (1909-2003) received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement; it was a controversial award, for in 1952 he had given testimony to the HUAC Committee, for which he was ostracized by many. That Oscar also acknowledged Kazan's remarkable contribution to American and world cinema, making such films as "On the Waterfront" and "A Streetcar Named Desire". Kazan's life in the cinema is due a reassessment, one that is presented expertly and gracefully by Brian Neve in this book, drawing on previously neglected and some hitherto untapped sources. Focussing in particular on the producer-director's post-"On the Waterfront", New ... Read more
In 1999, Elia Kazan (1909-2003) received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement; it was a controversial award, for in 1952 he had given testimony to the HUAC Committee, for which he was ostracized by many. That Oscar also acknowledged Kazan's remarkable contribution to American and world cinema, making such films as "On the Waterfront" and "A Streetcar Named Desire". Kazan's life in the cinema is due a reassessment, one that is presented expertly and gracefully by Brian Neve in this book, drawing on previously neglected and some hitherto untapped sources. Focussing in particular on the producer-director's post-"On the Waterfront", New ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845115609
SKU
V9781845115609
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About Brian Neve
Brian Neve is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath. He is the co-editor of 'Cinema, Politics and Society in America' (1986), author of 'Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition' (1992, 2000) and an associate editor of the New York based film and politics quarterly 'Cineaste'.
Reviews for Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider
Elia Kazan��' s reputation has been kicked around - since his controversial Life Achievement Award at the 1999 Academy Awards and his obituaries four years later - in ways which have seriously obscured an understanding of his work as a filmmaker. Brian Neve's book, by judicious use of archive material (notebooks, letters, scripts) and careful analysis of the films themselves ... Read more