Birth name Norman Kingsley Mailer NationalityUSA Birth 31 january 1923 at Long Branch (USA) Death 10 november 2007 (at 84 years) at New York City (USA) Awards Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate. His first novel was The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948. His best work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Mailer's book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award.
Along with the likes of Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the style and devices of literary fiction onto fact-based journalism.
Mailer was also known for his essays, the most renowned of which was The White Negro. He was a major cultural commentator and critic, both through his novels, his journalism, his essays and his frequent media appearances.
In 1955, Mailer and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village.
Biography
Fils d'Isaac Barnett, un comptable juif originaire d'Afrique du Sud, et de Fanny Schneider, gestionnaire d'une agence de femmes de ménage, Norman Kingsley Mailer grandit à Crown Heights, dans le quartier de Brooklyn (New York). Il entre à l'université Harvard en 1939 où il étudie l'ingénierie aéronautique. Il en sortira titulaire d'un titre de Bachelor of arts cum laude et s'y découvre un intérêt pour l'écriture, publiant sa première histoire à dix-huit ans. Norman Mailer fut enrôlé dans l'armée américaine début 1944. Sa participation à la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le Pacifique Sud, aux Philippines, fut lointaine (il termina son engagement comme cuisinier au Japon).
GenresDocumentary ThemesFilms about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film ActorsNorman Mailer Rating66% Tobias Schneebaum, artiste gay controversé, est connu pour son livre autobiographique “Keep the River on your Right“, relatant son expérience au Pérou. En 1955, Tobias Schneebaum entame son voyage, aux confins de la civilisation, durant lequel il participe aux rituels sexuels d’une tribu cannibale. Présumé mort, il finit par ressortir de la jungle un an plus tard. Ce documentaire suit Tobias, de retour au Pérou, 45 ans après son irréelle expérience, prêt à affronter ses cauchemars si longtemps occultés et filme ses retrouvailles étonnamment touchantes avec son ancien ami et partenaire sexuel.
, 2h35 Directed byMiloš Forman OriginUSA GenresDrama, Historical ThemesPolitique ActorsJames Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Howard Rollins Roles Stanford White Rating72% The film begins with a newsreel montage, depicting celebrities of the turn of the 20th century such as Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and the architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer), as well as life in New York. The newsreel is accompanied by ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.). The millionaire industrialist Harry Kendall Thaw (Robert Joy), who makes a scene when White's latest creation, a nude statue on the roof of Madison Square Garden, is unveiled. The model for the statue is Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern), a former chorus girl who is now Thaw's wife. Thaw becomes convinced White has corrupted Evelyn and humiliated him, and publicly shoots White, killing him.
, 1h30 Directed byNorman Mailer OriginUSA GenresDrama, Crime ActorsMickey Knox, Norman Mailer, D. A. Pennebaker Roles Prince Rating37% A trio of Mafia gangsters – The Prince (Norman Mailer), Cameo (Buzz Farbar) and Twenty Years (Mickey Knox)—are hiding in a warehouse. They have surrounded themselves with guns and liquor, and they kill time by joking and bickering with scatological language. But as their isolation from the world progresses, their drinking and arguing intensifies. They are briefly visited by a man with a barking dog—the canine is silenced when The Prince outbarks him—and by two women, one of whom gives The Prince a knife for committing suicide. The police arrive at the warehouse and the gangsters are taken away.
, 1h30 Directed byNorman Mailer OriginUSA GenresDrama, Crime ActorsMickey Knox, Norman Mailer, D. A. Pennebaker Rating37% A trio of Mafia gangsters – The Prince (Norman Mailer), Cameo (Buzz Farbar) and Twenty Years (Mickey Knox)—are hiding in a warehouse. They have surrounded themselves with guns and liquor, and they kill time by joking and bickering with scatological language. But as their isolation from the world progresses, their drinking and arguing intensifies. They are briefly visited by a man with a barking dog—the canine is silenced when The Prince outbarks him—and by two women, one of whom gives The Prince a knife for committing suicide. The police arrive at the warehouse and the gangsters are taken away.