Author, Auteur: A Conversation with Norman Mailer

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interviews, filmmaking and authorship, improvised cinema, Maidstone, Beyond the Law, auteur theory, American independent film

A film specialist interviews Norman Mailer about his long-term interest in cinema, including his work as a filmmaker.

Michael Chaiken

Michael Chaiken is a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine. He has organized touring retrospectives of the work of Luc Moullet, Peter Whitehead and Norman Mailer and is the editor of ‘Arthur Penn: Interviews’ (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) with Paul Cronin and ‘Albert Maysles: Photographs/Cinemagraphs/Documents’ (Steidl, 2007) with Steven Kasher. He lives in Brooklyn.