Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'
|Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'
Status: Released
Runtime: 21
Release Date: 23/04/2019
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US
Languages: English
Production: The Criterion Collection
Countries: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
Documentary
In this interview, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Ron Briley, author of 'The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan: The Politics of the Post-HUAC Films', discusses the origins of the Lonesome Rhodes character in the biographies of populist celebrities such as Will Rogers and Arthur Godfrey. He also addresses the political implications of 'A Face in the Crowd' (1957) within the context of Kazan's career.