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Original Title:	Elia Kazan: A Life
ISBN:	0306808048 (ISBN13: 9780306808043)
Edition Language:	English

Elia Kazan: A Life

Elia Kazan

Paperback | Pages: 848 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 309 Users | 44 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	Elia Kazan: A Life
Author	:	Elia Kazan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 848 pages
Published	:	August 22nd 1997 by Da Capo Press (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Culture. Film. Biography Memoir

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I read this a long time ago--very late 80's or early 90's. I was amazed at how interesting it was and how much I learned from this book, on a variety of topics--politics, history, the visual arts, culture. At the same time, it is written by a (still) not particularly admired or liked individual, who is nevertheless a passionate artist. It reads like a good story, exhilarating, and interesting. I want to re-read this book, but I am in the process of downsizing my book collection and this big-axx

this is an amazingly honest and searching autobiography. Gadj knewthere's yone. it's not just instigating Brando's career and sleeping with Marilyn Monroe. there's also working with Lee Strasberg and The Actors Studio, producing plays with Williams, Miller, and more. His own self -absorption and success becomes destructive narcissism, which he seems close to realizing. toward the end, after failed plays and movies and before his first successful novel The Arrangement, Kazan can not drop the

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Kazan was influential through a Golden Age of American Theatre, and he thoroughly discusses his work in all aspects of his career. He started as an actor with the Group Theatre and ended as an author of books, including this one. For those who like to know about the inner lives of celebrities, there is plenty for them. For those who like history, there is a ton of that. For those who want to know how he made artistic decisions and how he learned

This autobiography is an honest attempt of a famous man to try to make some sense of a very rich and complicated life. Kazan discusses in depth, his relationships with his parents, his wives, mistresses, his experiences in New York and Hollywood and the backlash he experienced after testifying to the HUAC. He is not at all sentimental and discusses detailed accounts of his life directly and openly- maybe too much because with all of the information, I never really took to the guy or was able to

Wow. Thank goodness I read WILD by Cheryl Strayed before I attempted this weighty tome! With her "permission," I cut the book's last 200 pages off during my completion of those pages. The whole thing is just too big to haul around! But worth every page if:-you are an actor/theatre person (active or former)-you are fascinated by big Hollywood movies and how they work (or don't!) -you are interested in the history of Communism in America and the HUAC's affect on the people who were targeted to

"Youre the nigger now Gadg," James Baldwin said this to Elia Kazan after the opprobrium heaped on him in hot, steaming platefuls because of his testimony to The House Un-American Activities Committee. It was a nod of painful recognition from one outsider to another. And, in a sense, thats how this wrenchingly honest, vitally alive and very necessary document--it has one of the most penetrating analysis of the actors' craft I've ever read--should best be read: the story of a perpetual outsider

Let me start by saying two things: first, that Elia Kazan is a terrible human being. And second, this is an amazing book. Those may sound contradictory. They're not. Kazan, who is best known either as director of films like On the Waterfront, or as one of the few who actually named names during the Communist witch hunt before the House, is indeed a terrible person. But what a life this guy led!Starting before the great depression and going right up the 1980s, Kazan led this amazing life in