Richard Schickel, a film critic at Time magazine, is the author of many biographies and books on film, including Brando: A Life in Our Times, Clint Eastwood: A Biography, Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America, and Good Morning Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and WWII. He produced a television documentary about Elia Kazan as well as a controversial tribute at the 1999 Academy Awards.
"Breathtaking, often riotous but never excessive...[Elia Kazan] could not be a more pertinent study of a spellbinding subject." -- New York Times Book Review"A scintillating and thoroughly readable new biography." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution"This sympathetic, scrupulously researched biography...vividly conveys the director's potent personality..." -- Booklist (starred review)"[A] masterly meditation on a complex, conflicted, and underappreciated director. . . . One of the year's best biographies." -- Library Journal"Schickel has a razor-sharp understanding of the many ways in which his subject's life and work affected one another." -- Martin Scorsese"A worthy companion to the director's own autobiography...immensely likeable." -- The Economist"A splendid, subtle, literate biography of one of the grand creative artists of theater and film in our time." -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr."This analysis is unsparingly thorough...Schickel's forceful, personalized criticism becomes as attention grabbing as Kazan's body of work." -- Publishers Weekly"Richard Schickel has produced the first 'life' of Kazan...[with] an impressive knowledge of the terrain [and] soundly balanced judgments." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review"...contains not a single dull moment for those interested in the behind-the-scenes aspects of theater and movies..." -- New York Press"Outstanding....Perhaps, thanks to Schickel's biography, history will once again remember Kazan primarily for his accomplishments, not his testimony." -- Grand Rapids Press"One of those exhilarating publishing rarities -- the ideal writer for the ideal subject." -- Buffalo News"Theater and film buffs -- not to mention scholars -- will revel in this astute explication of a working life." -- New York Sun
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
