num_pages: 848
description: 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.
language: English
title: Elia Kazan: A Life
titlecomplete: Elia Kazan: A Life
genres: Theatre, Autobiography, Collections, Film, Media Tie In, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 377
publisher: Da Capo Press