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Orson Welles Remembered

Peter Prescott Tonguette
Orson Welles Remembered Book PDF

Author : Peter Prescott Tonguette
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476611518

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Orson Welles Remembered by Peter Prescott Tonguette Pdf

With a career spanning almost five decades, Orson Welles became—and in many ways still is—one of entertainment’s biggest names. His temperamental vitality, his humor and his general theatricality contributed volumes to the American stage and movie screen. His concepts of lighting and staging brought a new era to American productions. Welles influenced an entire generation of directors. These interviews conducted between 2003 and 2005 record the reminiscences of 30 individuals who worked with Orson Welles in a professional capacity. Beginning with 1937 and his work in Mercury Theatre, it follows a selected few of many who were part of Welles’s life up to his sudden death in October 1985. Including actors, editors, cinematographers, camera assistants and magicians, the work presents a rounded view of Welles’s career and, to some extent, his personal life. Each interview is presented in question and answer format with occasional commentary inserted for context or clarification. Projects discussed include Welles’s most notable (Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds) as well as others like Heart of Darkness and The Cradle Will Rock which never quite reached fruition.

Orson Welles, Volume 3

Simon Callow
Orson Welles Volume 3 Book PDF

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,8 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?

Orson Welles

Peter Conrad
Orson Welles Book PDF

Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 057121164X

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Orson Welles by Peter Conrad Pdf

A fresh, provocative look at one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of film by "one of our most acute cultural critics" (Paul Fussell) Orson Welles was a metamorphic man, a magical shape-changer who made up myths about himself and permitted others to add to their store. On different occasions, he likened himself to Christ--mankind's redeemer--and to Lucifer--the rebel angel who brought about the fall. His persona compounded the roles he played--kings, despots, generals, captains of industry, autocratic film directors--and the more or less fictitious exploits with which he regaled other people or which they attributed to him. Hailed in childhood as a genius, he remained mystified by his own promise, unable to understand or control an intellect that he came to think of as a curse; and he ended his days shilling wine and performing magic tricks on talk shows. At times, he saw the collapse of his early ambitions as a tragedy; in other moods, he viewed his life as a humbling comedy, and settled down--like another favorite character, Shakespeare's Falstaff --to eat, drink and be irresponsibly merry. Rather than producing another conventional biography of Welles, Peter Conrad has set out to investigate the stories Welles told about his life--the myths and secret histories hidden in films both made and unmade, in the books Welles wrote and those he read. The result takes us deep into Welles' imagination, showing how he created, then ultimately destroyed himself.

Discovering Orson Welles

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Discovering Orson Welles Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520247383

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Orson Welles's Last Movie

Josh Karp
Orson Welles s Last Movie Book PDF

Author : Josh Karp
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250016089

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Orson Welles's Last Movie by Josh Karp Pdf

Journalist Josh Karp shines a spotlight on the making of The Other Side of the Wind—the final unfinished film from the auteur of Citizen Kane in Orson Welles’s Last Movie, the basis of Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville’s Netflix Original Documentary, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead. In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback movie. Coincidentally, it was the story of a legendary self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe. Welles swore it wasn’t autobiographical. The Other Side of the Wind was supposed to take place during a single day, and Welles planned to shoot it in eight weeks. It took six years during his lifetime—only to be finally completed more than thirty years after his death by The Last Picture Show director Peter Bogdanovich, who narrates the film, and released by Netflix. Orson Welles’s Last Movie is a fast-paced, behind-the-scenes account of the bizarre, hilarious, and remarkable making of what has been called “the greatest home movie that no one has ever seen.” Funded by the shah of Iran’s brother-in-law, and based on a script that Welles rewrote every night for years, the film was a final attempt to one-up his own best work. It’s a production best encompassed by its star—the celebrated director of The Maltese Falcon, John Huston—who described the making of the film as “an adventure shared by desperate men that finally came to nothing.”

Orson Welles

Orson Welles
Orson Welles Book PDF

Author : Orson Welles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578062098

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Orson Welles by Orson Welles Pdf

It is only in the editing studio that he possesses "absolute control." With scholarly erudition, Welles revels in the plays of Shakespeare and discusses their adaptation to stage and screen. He assesses rival directors and eminent actors, offers penetrating analyses of Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, and The Third Man, and declares that he never made a film that lacked an ethical point-of-view. Book jacket.

In My Father's Shadow

Chris Welles Feder
In My Father s Shadow Book PDF

Author : Chris Welles Feder
Publisher : Random House
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845968670

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In My Father's Shadow by Chris Welles Feder Pdf

Of all the myriad stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame - and, some would say, infamy - of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest film ever, Citizen Kane. Many books have been written about him, detailing his achievements as an artist as well as his foibles as a human being. None of them, however, has come so close to the real man as Chris Welles Feder does in this beautifully realised portrait of her father. In My Father's Shadow is a classic story of a life lived in the public eye, told with affection and the wide-eyed wonder of a daughter who never stopped believing that some day she would truly know and understand her elusive and larger-than-life father. The result is a moving and insightful look at life in the shadow of a legendary figure and an immensely entertaining story of growing up in the unreal reality of Hollywood.

Broadcast Hysteria

A. Brad Schwartz
Broadcast Hysteria Book PDF

Author : A. Brad Schwartz
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809031634

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Broadcast Hysteria by A. Brad Schwartz Pdf

On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call the police. Some even fled their homes. But the hair-raising broadcast was not a real news bulletin-it was Orson Welles's adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds. In Broadcast Hysteria, A. Brad Schwartz boldly retells the story of Welles's famed radio play and its impact. Did it really spawn a "wave of mass hysteria," as The New York Times reported? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent to Orson Welles himself in the days after the broadcast, and his findings challenge the conventional wisdom. Few listeners believed an actual attack was under way. But even so, Schwartz shows that Welles's broadcast became a major scandal, prompting a different kind of mass panic as Americans debated the bewitching power of the radio and the country's vulnerability in a time of crisis. When the debate was over, American broadcasting had changed for good, but not for the better. As Schwartz tells this story, we observe how an atmosphere of natural disaster and impending war permitted broadcasters to create shared live national experiences for the first time. We follow Orson Welles's rise to fame and watch his manic energy and artistic genius at work in the play's hurried yet innovative production. And we trace the present-day popularity of "fake news" back to its source in Welles's show and its many imitators. Schwartz's original research, gifted storytelling, and thoughtful analysis make Broadcast Hysteria a groundbreaking new look at a crucial but little-understood episode in American history.

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?

Joseph McBride
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles Book PDF

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance

James C. Bulman
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance Book PDF

Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199687169

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance by James C. Bulman Pdf

The series statement "Oxford handbooks to Shakespeare" taken from dust jacket.

Film Stars' Television Projects

Richard Irvin
Film Stars Television Projects Book PDF

Author : Richard Irvin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476669168

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Film Stars' Television Projects by Richard Irvin Pdf

Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Donna Reed successfully transitioned to television in its early days, many others tried and failed to become TV regulars. Drawing on contemporary interviews and other sources, this book profiles more than 50 actors--including Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Alan Ladd and Buster Keaton--and their unsuccessful pilots and short-lived series roles.

Rosebud

David Thomson
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Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679772835

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Rosebud by David Thomson Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Easily the best book on Orson Welles." --The New Yorker Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into "a sustaining tragedy"--his thing, his song. Now the prodigal genius of the American cinema finally has the biographer he deserves. For, as anyone who has read his novels and criticism knows, David Thomson is one of our most perceptive and splendidly opinionated writers on film. In Rosebud, Thomson follows the wild arc of Welles's career, from The War of the Worlds broadcast to the triumph of Citizen Kane, the mixed triumph of The Magnificent Ambersons, and the strange and troubling movies that followed. Here, too, is the unfolding of the Welles persona--the grand gestures, the womanizing, the high living, the betrayals. Thomson captures it all with a critical acumen and stylistic dash that make this book not so much a study of Welles's life and work as a glorious companion piece to them. "Insightful, controversial, and highly readable--Rosebud is biography at its best." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

Making Movies with Orson Welles

Gary Graver
Making Movies with Orson Welles Book PDF

Author : Gary Graver
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810882294

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Making Movies with Orson Welles by Gary Graver Pdf

In 1958, soon after his arrival in Los Angeles, Gary Graver caught a showing of die recently released Touch of Evil. Upon viewing the B classic, Graver decided he wanted to be a director and spent many years honing his craft, as both a cinematographer and a director, not to mention writer, actor, and producerùmuch like his idol, Orson Welles. In 1970, when Graver learned that Welles was in town, he impulsively called the director and offered his services as a cameraman. It was only the second time in Welles's career that he had received such an offer from a cinematographer, the other from Gregg Toland who worked on Citizen Kane. Book jacket.

Orson Welles

Barbara Leaming
Orson Welles Book PDF

Author : Barbara Leaming
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000046114259

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Orson Welles by Barbara Leaming Pdf

..". A] beautifully researched, valuable study of one of America's most influential and mysterious artists. ... What] makes this book remarkable is Welles's own contribution. His comments, opinions, interviews cut in and out of the narrative with an almost cinematic force." -Patricia Bosworth

Touch of Evil

Richard Deming
Touch of Evil Book PDF

Author : Richard Deming
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838719005

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Touch of Evil by Richard Deming Pdf

Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is widely recognised as one of the greatest noir films of Classical Hollywood cinema. Richard Deming's study of the film considers it as an outstanding example of the noir genre and explores its complex relationship to its source novel, Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. He traces the film's production history, and provides an insightful close analysis of its key scenes, including its famous opening sequence, a single take in which the camera follows a booby-trapped car on its journey through city streets and across the border.