Citizen Kane Orson Welles

Author : John Evangelist Walsh
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299205002

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Walking Shadows by John Evangelist Walsh Pdf

Walking Shadows dramatically dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and famous young actor, director, and filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. In 1940 and 1941 it became the center of public controversy and scandal, especially in Hollywood where Welles's own stark honesty and blatant self-confidence heightened the drama. Citizen Kane portrayed the ruthless career of an all-powerful magnate bearing (not accidentally) a striking resemblance to Hearst, who immediately tried to kill the picture. John Evangelist Walsh here illuminates the conflict between these two outsize personalities and for the first time brings Hearst's vengeful anti-Kane campaign to the fore. Walsh provides thorough documentation, supplemental notes, and an extended bibliography.

Author : James Naremore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199961313

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Orson Welles's Citizen Kane by James Naremore Pdf

Citizen Kane is arguably the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. No other film is quite so interesting from both artistic and political points of view. To study it even briefly is to learn a great deal about American history, motion-picture style, and the literary aspects of motion-picture scripts. Rather than presenting a sterile display of critical methodologies, James Naremore has gathered a set of essays that represent the essential writings on the film. It gives the reader a lively set of critical interpretations, together with the necessary production information, historical background, and technical understanding to comprehend the film's larger cultural significance. Selections range from the anecdotal --Peter Bogdanovich's interview with Orson Welles--to the critical, with discussions on the scripts and sound track, and a discussion of what accounts for the film's enduring popularity. Contributors include James Naremore, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Robert L. Carringer, François Thomas, Michael Denning, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, and Paul Arthur.

Author : Pauline Kael,Herman Jacob Mankiewicz,Orson Welles
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : 0436230313

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The Citizen Kane Book by Pauline Kael,Herman Jacob Mankiewicz,Orson Welles Pdf

Author : Sandra Joxe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
ISBN : 2218024055

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Citizen Kane, Orson Welles by Sandra Joxe Pdf

Author : Marilyn Fabe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520279971

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Closely Watched Films by Marilyn Fabe Pdf

"Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch"--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Frank Brady
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056497822

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Citizen Welles by Frank Brady Pdf

A biography of the actor and movie producer describing his life and achievements.

Author : Orson Welles,Herman Jacob Mankiewicz,Pauline Kael
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015055176161

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Citizen Kane by Orson Welles,Herman Jacob Mankiewicz,Pauline Kael Pdf

Originally published: London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1971.

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813171517

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What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? by Joseph McBride Pdf

At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915–1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career challenges the conventional wisdom that Welles’s career after Kane was a long decline and that he spent his final years doing little but eating and making commercials while squandering his earlier promise. In this intimate and often surprising personal portrait, Joseph McBride shows instead how Welles never stopped directing radical, adventurous films and was always breaking new artistic ground as a filmmaker. McBride is the first author to provide a comprehensive examination of the films of Welles's artistically rich yet little-known later period in the United States (1970–1985), when McBride knew and worked with him. McBride reports on Welles's daringly experimental film projects, including the legendary 1970–1976 unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind, Welles’s satire of Hollywood during the “Easy Rider era”; McBride gives a unique insider perspective on Welles from the viewpoint of a young film critic playing a spoof of himself in a cast headed by John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich. To put Welles’s widely misunderstood later years into context, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? reexamines the filmmaker’s entire life and career. McBride offers many fresh insights into the collapse of Welles’s Hollywood career in the 1940s, his subsequent political blacklisting, and his long period of European exile. An enlightening and entertaining look at Welles's brilliant and enigmatic career as a filmmaker, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? serves as a major reinterpretation of Welles’s life and work. McBride clears away the myths that have long obscured Welles’s later years and have caused him to be falsely regarded as a tragic failure. McBride’s revealing portrait of this great artist will change the terms of how Orson Welles is understood as a man, an actor, a political figure, and a filmmaker.

Author : Dominique Chateau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2907447130

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"Citizen Kane", Orson Welles by Dominique Chateau Pdf

Author : Charles Higham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520337497

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The Films of Orson Welles by Charles Higham Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author : Laura Mulvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781838715076

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Citizen Kane by Laura Mulvey Pdf

Citizen Kane's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What more can there be to say about a masterpiece so universally acknowledged? Laura Mulvey, in a fresh and original reading, illuminates the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles's political background and its historical context. In a lucid and perceptive critique she also investigates the psychoanalytic structure that underlies the film's presentation of Kane's biography, for once taking seriously what Orson Welles himself disparagingly referred to as 'dollar-book Freud.' In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Laura Mulvey focuses on the film's politics, highlighting the contemporary 'rhymes' in Kane's portrayal of a scandal-prone press baron in a time of economic crisis.

Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 006211249X

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Young Orson by Patrick McGilligan Pdf

On the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years—from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane. In the history of American popular culture, there is no more dramatic story—no swifter or loftier ascent to the pinnacle of success and no more tragic downfall—than that of Orson Welles. In this magisterial biography, Patrick McGilligan brings young Orson into focus as never before. He chronicles Welles’s early life growing up in Wisconsin and Illinois as the son of an alcoholic industrialist and a radical suffragist and classical musician, and the magical early years of his career, including his marriage and affairs, his influential friendships, and his artistic collaborations. The tales of his youthful achievements were so colorful and improbable that Welles, with his air of mischief, was often thought to have made them up. Now after years of intensive research, McGilligan sorts out fact from fiction and reveals untold, fully documented anecdotes of Welles’s first exploits and triumphs, from starring as a teenager on the Gate Theatre stage in Dublin and bullfighting in Sevilla, to his time in the New York theater and his fraught partnership with John Houseman in the Mercury Theatre, to his arrival in Hollywood and the making of Citizen Kane. Filled with intriguing new insights and startling revelations—including the surprising true origin and meaning of “Rosebud”—Young Orson is a fascinating look at the creative development and influences that shaped this legendary artistic genius.

Author : Diana Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
ISBN : OCLC:1244503679

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Citizen Kane by Diana Barnes Pdf

Author : Robert L. Carringer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520205677

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The Making of Citizen Kane, Revised Edition by Robert L. Carringer Pdf

Citizen Kane, widely considered the greatest film ever made, continues to fascinate critics and historians as well as filmgoers. While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, Carringer's pioneering study documents the shared creative achievements of Welles and his principal collaborators. The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system. This new edition includes a revised preface and overview of criticism, an updated chronology of the film's reception history, a reconsideration of the locus of responsibility of Welles's ill-fated The Magnificent Ambersons, and new photographs.

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473545762

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Orson Welles, Volume 3 by Simon Callow Pdf

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another – theatre, radio, film, television, even, at one point, ballet – in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities. The book begins with Welles’ self-exile from America, and his realisation that he could only function happily as an independent film-maker, a one-man band; by 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three years to complete, Mr Arkadin, the biggest conundrum in his output, and his masterpiece Chimes at Midnight, as well as Touch of Evil, his sole return to Hollywood and, like all too many of his films, wrested from his grasp and re-edited. Along the way he made inroads into the fledgling medium of television and a number of stage plays, including Moby-Dick, considered by theatre historians to be one of the seminal productions of the century. Meanwhile, his private life was as dramatic as his professional life. The book shows what it was like to be around Welles, and, with a precision rarely attempted before, what it was like to be him, in which lies the answer to the old riddle: whatever happened to Orson Welles?