Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation

by J.W. Whitehead

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078647145X
• ISBN13: 9780786471454
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher