The Films of Orson WellesThis book offers a comprehensive overview of the Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted in both splendid successes and puzzling failures. At the core of this book are sustained readings of Welles' masterpieces, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, and critically incisive accounts of his other major films, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, Macbeth, and Chimes at Midnight. |
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Contents
Citizen Kane | 32 |
The Magnificent Ambersons | 69 |
The Lady from Shanghai | 95 |
Touch of Evil | 110 |
Welless Shakespeare | 127 |
Notes | 167 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Films of Orson Welles Cambridge Film Classics |
| Author | Robert Garis |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0521649722, 9780521649728 |
| Length | 184 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production Performing Arts / Film / General Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism Social Science / Media Studies |
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