Perpetual Outsiders
The immigrant experience in the cinema of Elia Kazan
by Bilge Ebiri
posted Oct 9, 2009
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Kirk Douglas in The Arrangement, directed by Elia Kazan
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KEYWORDS
Elia Kazan | Marlon Brando | James Dean | Hollywood | studio system | Retrospective | immigration | Tennessee Williams | social classes | Montgomery Clift | masculinityTHE AUTHOR
Bilge Ebiri writes about film for New York magazine and Bookforum. He is also the director of the feature film New Guy (2003).
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