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.
| ISBN: | 9780521640145 |
| Publication date: | 8th March 2004 |
| Author: | Robert Wellesley College, Massachusetts Garis |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Film Classics |
| Genres: |
Films, cinema |
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.
The Films of Orson Welles features in the following genres: Films, cinema
The Films of Orson Welles is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Films of Orson Welles was written by Robert Wellesley College, Massachusetts Garis and published by Cambridge University Press
The Films of Orson Welles has 200 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Film Classics series
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