{"product_id":"martin-ritt-interviews-9781578064342","title":"Martin Ritt: Interviews","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of interviews provides a revealing self-portrait of Martin Ritt (1914-1990), America's preeminent maker of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South.  Ritt's Hollywood career began in 1958 with \u003cem\u003eEdge of the City\u003c\/em\u003e and ended in 1990 with the release of \u003cem\u003eStanley and Iris\u003c\/em\u003e. In all, he directed twenty-six movies, including some of Hollywood's most enduring films--\u003cem\u003eHud\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHombre\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Brotherhood\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Molly Maguires\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Front\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNorma Rae\u003c\/em\u003e.  Although he gave mostly boilerplate interviews to the press when promoting a movie, Ritt provided more revealing interviews for seminars, oral histories, and documentary filmmakers. The most significant of these, published here for the first time, create a close-up portrait of this distinguished director of plays and films.  Ritt speaks eloquently about his years with the Group Theatre and recreates the passion of the director Harold Clurman. He tells how the Group shaped his ideas about art and the communal nature of the theatrical enterprise, which he extended into his work in film. He speaks of his relationship with Clifford Odets and Elia Kazan, and he talks in detail about his experiences with the blacklist, directing and acting in TV during its Golden Age, his career as a theater director, and his experiences working with such actors as Paul Newman, Sally Field, Sophia Loren, Orson Welles, and Robert De Niro. Ritt discusses his philosophy of directing, the place of film in the history of art, his quarrels with \"\"auteur theory,\"\" and the influence of his politics on his work. Gabriel Miller, a professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man\u003c\/em\u003e (University Press of Mississippi). Articles by him have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLiterature\/Film Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, among other publications.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734081790295,"sku":"9781578064342","price":23.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/martin-ritt-interviews-9781578064342","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}