The Films of Orson Welles
The Films of Orson Welles
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This 2004 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. Robert Garis provides an appreciation and interpretative commentary of his films.
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The Films of Orson Welles by Robert Garis
This 2004 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 an 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.
'… excellent … valuable contribution to Welles scholarship' Modernism/Modernity
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521649728 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521649722 |
| Title | The Films of Orson Welles |
| Author | Robert Garis |
| Series | Cambridge Film Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2004-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |