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Free Download Richard Schickel, "Elia Kazan: A Biography"
English | 2006 | pages: 576 | ISBN: 0060955120, 0060195797 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. In that role he manifestly shaped the conception and writing, as well as the presentation, of many of the period’s iconic works, reshaping the values of the stage and bringing a new realism and intensity of performance to the screen. His various achievements include the original Broadway productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman and such Hollywood films as Gentleman’s Agreement, Brando’s Streetcar, and Splendor in the Grass.

Free Download The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan By Devlin, Albert J.;Devlin, Marlene J.;Kazan, Elia
2014 | 649 Pages | ISBN: 0307267164 | EPUB | 9 MB
This collection of nearly three hundred letters gives us the life of Elia Kazan unfiltered, with all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such an important and formidable stage director (A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman), film director (On the Waterfront, East of Eden), novelist, and memoirist. Elia Kazan’s lifelong determination to be a "sincere, conscious, practicing artist" resounds in these letters–fully annotated throughout–in every phase of his career: his exciting apprenticeship with the new and astonishing Group Theatre, as stagehand, stage manager, and actor (Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy) . . . his first tentative and then successful attempts at directing for the theater and movies (The Skin of Our Teeth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) . . . his cofounding in 1947 of the Actors Studio and his codirection of the nascent Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center . . . his innovative and celebrated work on…