Orson Welles
Title | Orson Welles PDF eBook |
Author | Orson Welles |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781578062096 |
It is only in the editing studio that he possesses "absolute control." With scholarly erudition, Welles revels in the plays of Shakespeare and discusses their adaptation to stage and screen. He assesses rival directors and eminent actors, offers penetrating analyses of Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, and The Third Man, and declares that he never made a film that lacked an ethical point-of-view. Book jacket.
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Title | What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph McBride |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 2006-10-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813171512 |
At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915–1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career challenges the conventional wisdom that Welles’s career after Kane was a long decline and that he spent his final years doing little but eating and making commercials while squandering his earlier promise. In this intimate and often surprising personal portrait, Joseph McBride shows instead how Welles never stopped directing radical, adventurous films and was always breaking new artistic ground as a filmmaker. McBride is the first author to provide a comprehensive examination of the films of Welles's artistically rich yet little-known later period in the United States (1970–1985), when McBride knew and worked with him. McBride reports on Welles's daringly experimental film projects, including the legendary 1970–1976 unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind, Welles’s satire of Hollywood during the “Easy Rider era”; McBride gives a unique insider perspective on Welles from the viewpoint of a young film critic playing a spoof of himself in a cast headed by John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich. To put Welles’s widely misunderstood later years into context, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? reexamines the filmmaker’s entire life and career. McBride offers many fresh insights into the collapse of Welles’s Hollywood career in the 1940s, his subsequent political blacklisting, and his long period of European exile. An enlightening and entertaining look at Welles's brilliant and enigmatic career as a filmmaker, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? serves as a major reinterpretation of Welles’s life and work. McBride clears away the myths that have long obscured Welles’s later years and have caused him to be falsely regarded as a tragic failure. McBride’s revealing portrait of this great artist will change the terms of how Orson Welles is understood as a man, an actor, a political figure, and a filmmaker.
Discovering Orson Welles
Title | Discovering Orson Welles PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 696 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520247388 |
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Orson Welles
Title | Orson Welles PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph McBride |
Publisher | London : Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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Orson Welles's Last Movie
Title | Orson Welles's Last Movie PDF eBook |
Author | Josh Karp |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 2015-04-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250007089 |
In the summer of 1970 legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback movie. Coincidentally it was the story of a legendary self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe. Welles swore it wasn't autobiographical. The Other Side of the Wind was supposed to take place during a single day, and Welles planned to shoot it in eight weeks. It took twelve years and remains unreleased and largely unseen. Orson Welles' Last Movie is a fast-paced, behind-the-scenes account of the bizarre, hilarious and remarkable making of what has been called "the greatest home movie that no one has ever seen."
The Films of Orson Welles
Title | The Films of Orson Welles PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Higham |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 672 |
Release | 2023-12-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520337492 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
The Magic World of Orson Welles
Title | The Magic World of Orson Welles PDF eBook |
Author | James Naremore |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2015-07-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0252097874 |
Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third edition of this incomparable study, including a new section on the unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind . Naremore analyzes the political and psychological implications of the films, Welles's idiosyncratic style, and the biographical details--both playful and vexing--that impacted each work. Itself a historic film study, The Magic World of Orson Welles unlocks the soaring art and quixotic methods of a master.