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The Films of Orson Welles

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Films of Orson Welles
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert Garis
SeriesCambridge Film Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:200
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreFilms and cinema
ISBN/Barcode 9780521649728
ClassificationsDewey:791.4375
Audience
Professional & Vocational
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 36 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 8 March 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book offers a comprehensive overview of 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. Examining the key and recurring themes of Welles' long and varied career, Robert Garis provides a fresh appreciation and interpretative commentary of his films. 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.

Reviews

'... excellent ... valuable contribution to Welles scholarship.' Modernism/Modernity