Mike Nichols

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Mike Nichols is written by Kyle Stevens and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199375844 (ISBN 10) and 9780199375844 (ISBN 13).

Through the study of performer and director Mike Nichols, this book questions the aesthetic-ideological stance against psychological realism. It argues that characters' actions are not just filmed concepts but can be film concepts whose forms resonate politically. Nichols' oeuvre centres on moments when words and gestures cease to mean, or to mean in typical ways. In doing so, it exposes the pretence of tropes that constitute conventionally realist characters, and participates in changes in US cultural attitudes toward language, subjectivity, embodiment, and the social, particularly with regard to sexual politics.