Despite The System by Clinton Heylin
Orson Welles was all too aware, in his later years, that posterity would judge his life to have been essentially a failure: that it would construct a neat parabola of decline that would arc down from his youthful masterpiece, Citizen Kane, to the wine adverts he used to fund his latter day imbibing. In Despite The System Clinton Heylin shows brilliantly how Welles was undone by real people, with real motives - and by the circumstances found in a single time and place, Hollywood at the end of its golden era - and yet still succeeded in forging a body of work that, whatever its flaws, is without equal in the history of cinema.
"Everything about me is a contradiction" Orson Welles"
Clinton Heylin is the renowned author of the definitive Bob Dylan biography, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and Can You Feel The Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, amongst others. He lives in Somerset.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841955865 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841955868 |
| Title | Despite The System |
| Author | Clinton Heylin |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2005-02-11 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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