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Biography

Name: Elia Kazan
Birth Date: 1909
Place of Birth: Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: director, author

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Biography of Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan (born 1909) is known as the preeminent director of works by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. Kazan emerged as the leading exponent of psychological realism via his film and stage productions of the 1940s and 1950s. His works reflect...


Quotations
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Elia Kazan Quotes
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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay...


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Elia Kazan Information
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Elia Kazan, (Greek: Ηλίας Καζάν), (September 7 1909 – September 28 2003) was a Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and cofounder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in...


News and Journals
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Film - Dienst
Elia Kazan
10/01/2003: 774 words, approx. 3 pages
Worin liegt das Dilemma, unser Dilemma, welches wir mit diesem Filmemacher hatten und haben? Dass er ein Denunziant war, ein "Informer", der mit McCarthys Untersuchungsausschuss zusammen arbeitete - und dass er zugleich danach weiter gute, zum Teil hervorragende Filme gemacht hat. Es gab nicht...
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The Economist (US)
Elia Kazan: A Life.
07/16/1988: 515 words, approx. 2 pages
ELIA KAZAN: A LIFE. By Elia Kazan. Andre Deutsch; 848 pages-(British lb)I7.95. Knopf; $24.95 EVERYTHING in Elia Kazan's life and career was overshadowed by his decision in 1952 to name names to the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, a congressional body set up...
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Blacklisted writer Bernard Gordon dies
5/12/2007: 426 words, approx. 1 pages
Bernard Gordon, a screenwriter blacklisted during Hollywood's anti-communist crusade in the 1950s, has died. He was 88.Gordon died Friday at his Hollywood Hills home after a long battle with cancer, according to his daughter, Ellen Gordon."He was highly principled, scrupulously honest," his daughter said. "He...
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'Eternity' star Deborah Kerr dies at 86
10/18/2007: 1,022 words, approx. 3 pages
Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses while portraying an Army officer's unhappy wife in "From Here to Eternity" and danced with the Siamese monarch in "The King and I," has died. She was 86.Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Peter Biskind
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On the Waterfront is one of the earliest and most effective attempts to suppress politics with morality and private values that the fifties produced. It takes an important first step in detaching the self from a larger social context so that the idea of self can be redefined in narrower, safer terms. Splendor in the Grass, America, America, and The Arrangement merely develop the notion of personality initially presented in On the Waterfront…. Films like Viva Zapata! and On the Waterfront bear the mar...
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Critical Essay by Jim Kitses
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Questions of personal conscience, individual freedom and social responsibility have often supplied Kazan with his material; in this sense Kazan can be said to have become the victim of his concerns when McCarthyism arose. Despite this ostensible continuity, however, fewer directors reveal sharper changes of emphasis in their careers than Kazan…. In the films of the forties the treatment of moral and social issues is unexceptional. Kazan here is working within well-established genres and a general eth...
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Critical Essay by Louis Marcorelles
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As Elia Kazan acquires a measure of financial as well as artistic independence, the importance of the place he holds in the American cinema increases. Intentionally or not, he has become the spokesman of certain contemporary attitudes; and from On the Waterfront to Baby Doll we have the complete circle, the picture of homo Americans as a victim of blindly destructive forces, painfully engaged in waging his battle of conscience. Baby Doll is only indirectly and by implication a social drama: its real subject...
 


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