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Elia Kazan

    7 września 1909 – 28 września 2003
    Elia Kazan
    Kazan on Directing
    The Anatolian
    The Assassins
    Dubler
    Mordercy
    Układ
    • Układ

      • 599 stron
      • 21 godzin czytania

      Eddie Anderson, dynamiczny wiceprezes agencji reklamowej, błyskotliwy pisarz, mąż i niezmordowany kochanek, przyjaciel ludzi, którzy coś znaczą, pewnego dnia stwierdza, że ma dość. Opętany na punkcie pięknej i niezależnej Gwen Hunt, wyłamuje się z układu w którym i dzięki któremu żyje. Niszczy swe małżeństwo, karierę, całego dotychczasowego siebie. Czy obracając to wszystko w ruinę, zrywając maskę, stanie się wreszcie sobą?

      Układ
      4,4
    • Mordercy

      • 443 strony
      • 16 godzin czytania
      Mordercy
    • Master Sergeant Cesario Flores is a troubled man. A career non-com, he feels safe in his well-ordered life. So when his precious daughter Juana joins the tuned-in, dropped-out generation, Flores breaks into little pieces...with murder the result. THE ASSASSINS is set in the United States during the '70s, a violent time at home and abroad. It's about two specific murders, but more than that it focused on a murderous way of life.

      The Assassins
      5,0
    • The Anatolian

      • 502 strony
      • 18 godzin czytania

      Anatólčan je najnovším románom slávneho amerického režiséra a spisovateľa Eliu Kazana, ktorý voľne nadväzuje na jeho prvú prózu Amerika, Amerika. Dej sa začína v roku 1909 v New Yorku, kde sa opäť stretávame so Stavrosom, ktorý po desiatich rokoch v Amerike očakáva príchod svojej rodiny. Splnil otcov sen a teší sa na slobodu, no z lode vystúpi iba matka a súrodenci, pretože otec zomrel deň pred vyplávaním. Stavros sa musí znova postaviť na čelo rodiny, prevziať zodpovednosť a stať sa tvrdým vodcom, ktorý vyžaduje absolútnu poslušnosť. Zmenená situácia však vedie k vzbure súrodencov, ktorí sa začínajú od neho odcudzovať. Stavros ostáva sám a čelí sklamaniu, keď zistí, že Amerika ho neprijme. Hoci je dobrodruh a hazardér, v detstve mu vštepili prísny kódex cti, ktorý zahŕňa vernosť rodine a úctu k tradíciám. Spočiatku sa domnieva, že majetok a moc sú kľúčom k prežitiu, no nakoniec si uvedomuje, že nesmie stratiť sám seba. Román zachytáva charakter národa poznačeného päťstoročnou tureckou porobou, no zároveň si uvedomuje svoju kultúrnu tradíciu. Kazanov román nás strhne svojou dramatickosťou a vášnivosťou.

      The Anatolian
      4,4
    • Kazan on Directing

      • 368 stron
      • 13 godzin czytania

      Elia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a testament to his profound impact on the art of directing. This remarkable book, drawn from his notebooks, letters, interviews, and autobiography, reveals Kazan’s method: how he uncovered the “spine,” or core, of each script; how he analyzed each piece in terms of his own experience; and how he determined the specifics of his production. And in the final section, “The Pleasures of Directing”—written during Kazan’s final years—he becomes a wise old pro offering advice and insight for budding artists, writers, actors, and directors.

      Kazan on Directing
      4,2
    • Stage director of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On The Waterfront" among others, tells of his background from a Greek immigrant family in New York to the heights of success and his controversial relationships with legendary figures like Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams and James Dean.

      A Life
      4,2
    • The Understudy

      • 349 stron
      • 13 godzin czytania

      Elia Kazan was over 50 years old when his first book was published in 1962, but he was certainly not an unknown debut novelist. Kazan, the theater and film director, was a world-renowned figure with productions of works by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, as well as films such as "On the Waterfront" and "East of Eden." Elia Kazan was born in 1909 in Istanbul to Greek-Armenian parents. His family emigrated to America when he was four years old, and memories from this cultural shift became the theme for his first novel "America – America," about a Greek boy whose only thought is to get to the USA. Kazan continued his writing alongside his theater and film work. In 1967, "The Arrangement" was published, followed by "The Assassins" in 1972. Both novels caused a tremendous stir and were among the bestsellers of the year. In "The Understudy," published in the spring of 1975, Kazan has for the first time used the environment he knows from the inside as the setting for the story. Once again, Kazan has written a large, broad, entertaining narrative.

      The Understudy
      3,5
    • Ethel is a woman hungry for a strong man's love. She indulges her appetites early, dipping into lives and beds and breaking off--unsatisfied, unfulfilled, ravenous still. She goes from man to man without guilt. Until, finally, someone has to stop her.

      Acts of Love
      3,5
    • An American Odyssey

      • 240 stron
      • 9 godzin czytania

      A collection of writings by Elia Kazan, co-founder of the Actors Studio, producer of plays by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller and director of "On the Waterfront", "East of Eden" and "Splendour in the Grass". Here he discusses a range of topics from politics and directing to the actors he knew.

      An American Odyssey
    • Écrit comme un script de film, Amerika Amerika se lit comme la description d'un film avec des images simples, intenses et évocatrices, faisant de ce livre un exemple exemplaire de narration cinématographique. Basé sur sa propre histoire familiale, Kazan raconte le parcours aventureux d'un jeune Grec du sud-est de la Turquie vers l'Amérique, le « pays de la liberté », sur fond de répression des minorités grecques et arméniennes au début du 20e siècle.

      Le Livre de Poche - 3650: America America - Texte intégral
      3,0
    • Le Cinéma

      • 253 strony
      • 9 godzin czytania

      French

      Le Cinéma
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      Sette giorni a maggio, America America, Si torna alla vita, Il capitano Newman.

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