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Book

Kazan on directing

Call Number

  • 791.430233 K237V (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, 2010.

Physical Description

xxiii, 341 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Summary

Elia Kazan was the twentieth century's most celebrated theater and film director, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan's list of Broadway and Hollywood successes - A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few - is a testament to his profound on the art of directing. This remarkable volume, drawn from his notebooks, letters, interviews, and autobiography, reveals Kazan's method: how he uncovered the "spine," or core, of each script; how he analyzed each piece in terms of his own experience; and how he determined the specifics of his production, from casting and costuming to set design and cinematography. And in the final section, "The Pleasures of Directing" - written during Kazan's final years - he is the wise voice of experience offering advice and insight for budding artists, writers, actors, and directors. -- from back cover.

Notes

Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Contents

  • For the group theatre
  • Hot nocturne
  • The skin of our teeth
  • Dunnigan's daughter
  • Truckline café
  • All my sons
  • A streetcar named Desire
  • Death of a salesman
  • Camino Real
  • Cat on a hot tin roof
  • J.B.
  • Sweet bird of youth
  • Short takes
  • A tree grows in Brooklyn
  • Boomerang!
  • Gentleman's agreement
  • Panic in the streets
  • A streetcar named Desire
  • Viva Zapata!
  • On the waterfront
  • East of Eden
  • Baby doll
  • A face in the crowd
  • Wild river
  • Splendor in the grass
  • America America
  • The arrangement
  • The last tycoon
  • Short takes
  • On what makes a director
  • The pleasures of directing.

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