Elia Kazan's realism: A cinematic analysis of kazan's selected films

Involved in filmmaking more than four decades, Elia Kazan had been a witness and an influence for significant change in the American film industry. His final phase includes four films, respectively, America America, The Arrangement, The Visitors and The Last Tycoon which are his most neglected films in film studies, compared to his previous successful films such as On The Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden and Splendor in the Grass. This thesis has focused on two of his late films for mainly two reasons; to fill the gap in the literature and present analyses of Kazan's two most structurally different films regarding their mutual narrative complexities with the concept of realism. Realism is one of the key concepts to study Kazan in the research field, but distinctively, I have tried to find the realism within the mise en scène and ambivalence in the narrative.