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Spartacus by Howard Fast

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Spartacus Quotes
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Spartacus ( 1960 ) is a film directed by Stanley Kubrick , based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast about the life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War . The film stars Kirk Douglas as rebellious slave Spartacus and Laurence Olivier as his...


Director Biography

Name: Howard Fast
Variant Name: Walter Ericson, E. V. Cunningham
Birth Date: November 11, 1914
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Howard Fast
3908 words, approx. 13 pages
Howard Fast tirelessly worked his way from poverty to become one of the most widely read writers of the twentieth century. He was already an acclaimed writer by the mid-1940s, when he decided to formalize his support for the Communist party despite the a...
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Biography of Howard (Melvin) Fast
2297 words, approx. 7.7 pages
Born in New York City, the son of Barney and Ida Miller Fast, Howard Melville Fast attended George Washington High School and the National Academy of Design. On 6 June 1937, he married Bette Cohen. They had two children, Rachel and Jonathan. Fast served...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Spartacus Information
3,995 words, approx. 13 pages
Spartacus is a 1960 action-adventure-biographical-drama-historical-romance-war film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. The film stars Kirk...


News and Journals
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New Internationalist
Spartacus.
10/01/1996: 726 words, approx. 2 pages
IF THERE'S A SINGLE image that most of us have of Spartacus it's that of rows upon rows of slaves standing up at the end of the 1959 film, all of them shouting out, 'I'm Spartacus!' But the story of Spartacus the...
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Michigan Quarterly Review
Spartacus
01/01/2000: 2,377 words, approx. 8 pages
It was not at first apparent to Andrew that there was anything amiss with his haircut, that it was anything other than a nice haircut, possibly sharp. Indeed, during those first few heady moments that followed his departure from Cheri's Salon de Rigeour, sharp...
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The New York Observer
Wednesday, January 2nd
1/1/2008: 340 words, approx. 1 pages
Twenty-four hours until we know who wins the Iowa caucuses! If Hillary wins, the big plus: the writer’s strike won’t matter anymore because we’ll all be treated to the greatest reality TV show ever, as the sleaze-packed, scandal-scented, dysfunctional marriage program you know and love...
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AP News
Film set director Ruiz del Rio dies
9/16/2007: 261 words, approx. 1 pages
Emilio Ruiz del Rio, the award-winning Spanish set decorator and visual and special effects wizard who worked on such films as "Dr. Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Pan's Labyrinth," has died, a hospital official said Sunday. He was 84.Ruiz del Rio died of respiratory failure...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Henry Sheehan
2,746 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Sheehan relates some of the controversial stories surrounding the filming and release of Kubrick's Spartacus.
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Critical Essay by Henry Sheehan
2,167 words, approx. 7 pages
In the following essay, Sheehan determines Kubrick's role in the creation of the film Spartacus.


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