Resumen de Looking for America: the dramatic acts of Elia Kazan

James Bell, Christina Newland, Philip Kemp, Kelli Weston

• In a handful of masterpieces in the 1950s and 60s the director Elia Kazan (1909-2003) revolutionised Hollywood screen acting. As the BFI launches a major retrospective, we consider some dimensions of his life and what his career meant for film, and for America. Introduction by James Bell, with James Bell on Kazan and acting, Christina Newland on Kazan the immigrant, Philip Kemp on Kazan and politics and Kelli Weston on Kazan and sexuality