{"product_id":"9781476616421","title":"Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation","description":"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—\u003ci\u003eWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/i\u003e (1966) and \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate\u003c\/i\u003e (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, Tony) club. He made many other American cinematic classics, including \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), \u003ci\u003eCarnal Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eSilkwood\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eWorking Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003ePostcards from the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), and his late masterpieces for HBO, \u003ci\u003eWit\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eAngels in America\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). Filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh regard him with reverence. This first full-career retrospective study of this protean force in the American arts begins with the roots of his filmmaking in satirical comedy and Broadway theatre and devotes separate chapters to each of his 20 feature films. Nichols’ permanent achievements are his critique of the ways in which culture constructs conformity and his tempered optimism about individuals’ liberation by transformative awakening.","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company, Incorporated Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163072905456,"sku":"9781476616421","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476616421_p0.jpg?v=1763608716","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476616421","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}