Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture

Name: Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture
Price: 39.83 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780231112291

ISBN-10: 0231112297

ISBN-13: 9780231112291

Edition: 1999

Authors: Michael Anderegg

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $43.05

Marketplace

1 new & used from $39.83

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

From the earliest days of radio to the golden age of television and beyond, Orson Welles has occupied a unique place in American culture. In Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture, Michael Anderegg considers Welles's influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for twentieth-century American popular audiences. Exploring his works on stage, radio, and in film, Anderegg reveals Welles's unique position as an artist of both high and popular culture. At once intellectually respected and commercially viable, the Shakespeare Welles gave the American public reflects his unique genius as a writer, director, and actor. From early plays in school to the Everybody's Shakespeare books and the…

Book details

Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Michael Anderegg is professor of English at the University of North Dakota. He is the editor of Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television,and author of David Leanand William Wyler.




Shakespeare in Las Vegas: Welles and American Culture



"Raise Hell with Everything": Shakespeare as Event



"Cashing in on the Classics": Everybody's Shakespeare and the Mercury Text Records



Welles/Shakespeare/Film: An Overview



Shakespeare Rides Again: The Republic Macbeth



The Texts of Othello



Chimes at Midnight: Rhetoric and History



Welles as Performer: From Shakespeare to Brecht


Epilogue