Elia Kazan: A BiographyAn electrifying biography, by one of Americas foremost film scholars, of the controversial director Elia Kazan (1909 2003), that looks at the man and his art in the context of the social, political, and cultural environments in which he lived and worked. From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. In that