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OverviewMike 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. W. WhiteheadPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.614kg ISBN: 9780786471454ISBN 10: 078647145 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 30 May 2014 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewshighly recommended...a must --<i>Examiner.com</i>. Author InformationJ. W. Whitehead is director of fine arts and of the honors program at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia, where he teaches film and creative writing. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Puerto del Sol, Modern Short Stories, Christianity and Literature and more than a dozen of his stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |