Kazan revisited / edited by Lisa Dombrowski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Introduction / Lisa Dombrowski -- On Kazan the man / Jeanine Basinger -- The quiet side of Kazan / Kent Jones -- Elia Kazan, seen from 1973 / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- "The director, that miserable son of a bitch" : Kazan, Viva Zapata! and the problem of authority / Leo Braudy -- Mr. Kazan goes to Washington : a case study in misguided ambivalence / Victor Navasky -- Man on a tightrope : Kazan as liberal anticommunist / Brenda Murphy -- "Independence" and the "art film" : Baby doll and after / Brian Neve -- The search for humor and humanity in Baby doll and A face in the crowd / Sam Wasson -- A straight director's queer eye, 1951-1961 / Mark Harris -- The other side of the story : Elia Kazan as director of female pain / Savannah Lee -- Documentary and democracy in Boomerang! and Panic in the streets / Andrew Tracy -- Elia Kazan and the semidocumentary composing urban space / Patrick Keating -- Choreographing emotions : Kazan's cinemascope staging / Lisa Dombrowski -- Lost river / Richard Schickel -- Late Kazan, or the ambiguities / Haden Guest.

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A groundbreaking filmmaker dogged by controversy in both his personal life and career, Elia Kazan was one of the most important directors of postwar American cinema. In landmark motion pictures such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, and Splendor in the Grass, Kazan crafted an emotionally raw form of psychological realism. His reputation has rested on his Academy Awardûwinning work with actors; his provocative portrayal of sexual, moral, and generational conflict; and his unpopular decision to name former colleagues as Communists before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952. But much of Kazan's influential cinematic legacy remains unexamined. Arriving in the wake of his centenary, Kazan Revisited engages and moves beyond existing debates regarding Kazan's contributions to film, tackling the social, political, industrial, and aesthetic significance of his work from a range of critical perspectives. Featuring essays by established film critics and scholars such as Jeanine Basinger (The Star _Machine), Leo Braudy (On the Waterfront), Mark Harris (Pictures at a Revolution), Kent Jones (Physical Evidence), Victor Navasky (Naming Names), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia), Richard Schickel (Clint: A Retrospective), and Sam Wasson (Fifth Avenue, 5 AM), this book is a must for diehard cinephiles and those new to Kazan alike.

Lisa Dombrowski is an associate professor of film studies at Wesleyan University and the author of The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You! --Book Jacket.

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