Maura Spiegel
Maura Spiegel is a born and bred New Yorker. She has been teaching literature and film at Columbia University for over two decades. She is a founding member and codirector of the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she teaches film to medical students. She has lectured nationally and internationally on film and medical ethics. She has published on many subjects including the history of the emotions, Charles Dickens, Victorian fashion and film, and diamonds in the movies.
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Sidney Lumet
- By: Maura Spiegel
- Narrator: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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The first-ever biography of the seminal American director whose remarkable life traces a line through American entertainment history
Acclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Sidney Lumet began his astonishing five-decades-long directing... Read more
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