Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation (Paperback)

Mike Nichols burst onto the American cultural scene in the late 1950s as one half of the comic cabaret team of Nichols and May. He became a Broadway directing sensation, then moved on to Hollywood, where his first two films - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The Graduate (1967) - earned a total of 20 Academy Award nominations. Nichols won the 1968 Oscar for Best Director and later joined the rarefied EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) club. He made many other American cinematic classics, including Catch-22 (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), Silkwood (1983), Working Girl (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), and his late masterpieces for HBO, Wit (2001) and Angels in America (2003). Filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh regard him with reverence. This first full-career retrospective study of this protean force in the American arts, begins with the roots of his filmmaking in satirical comedy and Broadway theatre, and devotes separate chapters to each of his 20 feature films. The author locates Nichols' permanent achievement in his critique of the ways in which culture constructs conformity, and in his tempered optimism about individuals liberation by transformative awakening.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	July 2014
Authors:	J. W. Whitehead
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-7864-7145-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7864-7145-X
Barcode:	9780786471454

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