Discovering Orson Welles

Name: Discovering Orson Welles
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ISBN: 9780520251236

ISBN-10: 0520251237

ISBN-13: 9780520251236

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles's career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has long believed that to dwell on this aspect of the Welles canon is to overlook the wealth of information available by studying the unrealized works. Discovering Orson Welles collects Rosenbaum's writings-to-date on Welles - some 35 years of them - and makes an irrefutable case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist and Welles the man. The book is also a chronicle of Rosenbaum's highly personal writer's journey and his unceasing efforts to arrive at…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034



Acknowledgments


Introduction



I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to "Raising Kane"



The Voice and the Eye: A Commentary on the Heart of Darkness Script



Notes on a Conversation with Welles



First Impressions of F for Fake



The Butterfly and the Whale: Orson Welles's F for Fake



Prime Cut (The 107-Minute Touch of Evil)



Andre Bazin and the Politics of Sound in touch of Evil



The Invisible Orson Welles: A First Inventory



Reviews of Biographies by Barbara Leaming and Charles Higham and a Critical Edition of Touch of Evil



Afterword to The Big Brass Ring, a Screenplay by Orson Welles (with Oja Kodar)



Wellesian: Quixote in a Trashcan (New York University Welles Conference)



Reviews of Citizen Welles and a Critical Edition of Chimes at Midnight



Review of Orson Wells: A Bio-Bibliography



Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: A Two-Part Speculation



The Seven Arkadins



Othello Goes Hollywood



Truth and Consequence: On It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles



Afterword to the Cradle Will Rock, an Original Screenplay by Orson Welles



Orson Welles in the U.S.: An Exchange with Bill Krohn



The Battle over Orson Welles



Touch of Evil Retouched



Excerpt from "Problems of Access: On the Trail of Some Festival Films and Filmmakers" (On Touch of Evil)



Welles in the Lime Light: The Third Man



Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge



Orson Welles's Purloined Letter: F for Fake



When Will-and How Can-We Finish Orson Welles's Don Quixote?



The Present State of the Welles Film Legacy


Index