At the memorial held after Martin Ritt's death in 1990, he was hailed as this country's greatest maker of social films. From No Down Payment early in his career to Stanley & Iris, his last production, he delineated the nuances of American society. In between were other social statement...

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1. Verfasser:	Jackson, Carlton 1933-2014 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Bowling Green Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press 1994
Schlagworte:	Ritt, Martin <1914-1990> Ritt, Martin > 1914-1990 Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography USA Biografie
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Zusammenfassung:	At the memorial held after Martin Ritt's death in 1990, he was hailed as this country's greatest maker of social films. From No Down Payment early in his career to Stanley & Iris, his last production, he delineated the nuances of American society. In between were other social statements such as Hud, Sounder, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Norma Rae, and The Great White Hope He was a leftist who embraced various radical movements of the 1930s and, largely because of this involvement, was blacklisted from television in the early 1950s. His film The Front, about the blacklisting, was his most autobiographical He was a Jew from New York; yet he went to a small college in North Carolina, Elon, where he played football for "The Fighting Christians." His school days in the South gave him a lifelong love for the region. Thus, in his movies, he was just as much at home with southern as with northern topics. He did not deal totally in his southern experience with racism and poverty. He directed The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, both of which described conflicts between and among white social groups
Beschreibung:	VIII, 300 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0879726717 0879726725