Mike Nichols : sex, language, and the reinvention of psychological realism /
Kyle Stevens.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Mike Nichols and the politics of character -- Nothing goes unheard: Nichols and May, improvisation, and the skewing of language -- Nichols comedy of remarriage -- The graduate and the subversion of silence -- Carnal knowledge: the close-up, duration, and affective impotence -- The minds of chameleons: Nichols and Streep -- Conclusion: Nichols' cinema of conversation.