Orson Welles Volume 1

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu written by Simon Callow and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first volume of his masterful, highly acclaimed biography, Simon Callow captures the genius of Orson Welles, revealing a life even more extraordinary than the myths that have surrounded it. "A splendidly entertaining, definitive work".--"Entertainment Weekly" . of photos.

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670024919
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles written by Simon Callow and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the legendary director, discussing the making of "Citizen Kane," his contributions to such films as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "The Lady from Shanghai," and his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics.

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099502836
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles written by Simon Callow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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? "

Author : Frank Brady
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813197155
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen Welles written by Frank Brady and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orson Welles (1915–1985) is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. At just twenty-five years old, he cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in his Academy Award–winning debut film Citizen Kane (1941). His innovative and distinctive directorial style—nonlinear narratives, unusual camera angles, deep focus shots, and long takes—continues to be emulated by directors and cinematographers to this day. The brilliant yet provocative Welles won multiple Grammys, a Golden Globe, and the greatest honor the Directors Guild of America bestowed: the D. W. Griffith Award. His final film, The Other Side of the Wind, was released in 2018, 33 years after his death. In Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles, author Frank Brady presents a comprehensive and complete picture of the artist and auteur. Painstakingly researched, Brady delves into Welles's creative achievements, from his critically acclaimed film Citizen Kane and controversial radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds" (1938) to his starring turn on Broadway in Shaw's Heartbreak House (for which he made the cover of Time). Brady also explores other notable films, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Touch of Evil (1958), and Chimes at Midnight (1965). This all-encompassing work also details the personal side of Welles's life, including his romances with Rita Hayworth and Dolores Del Rio and the confounding tragedy of his final years. Presented is a captivating and compelling encapsulation of the revered and respected artist.

Author : Alberto Anile
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010411
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles in Italy written by Alberto Anile and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing a Hollywood that spurned him, Orson Welles arrived in Italy in 1947 to begin his career anew. Far from being welcomed as the celebrity who directed and starred in Citizen Kane, his six-year exile in Italy was riddled with controversy, financial struggles, disastrous love affairs, and failed projects. Alberto Anile's book depicts the artist's life and work in Italy, including his reception by the Italian press, his contentious interactions with key political figures, and his artistic output, which culminated in the filming of Othello. Drawing on revelatory new material on the artist's personal and professional life abroad, Orson Welles in Italy also chronicles Italian cinema's transition from the social concerns of neorealism to the alienated characters in films such as Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, amid the cultural politics of postwar Europe and the beginnings of the cold war.

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442099227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles written by Simon Callow and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the legendary director, discussing the making of "Citizen Kane," his contributions to such films as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "The Lady from Shanghai," and his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics.

Author : Terry Comito
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813510972
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touch of Evil written by Terry Comito and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book about "Touch of Evil" includes the continuity script, a biography of Orson Welles, an interview with Welles by Andre Bazih, an interview with Charlton Heston, excerpts from several critical essays, major reviews, a filmography and a bibliography.

Author : Orson Welles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578062096
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles written by Orson Welles and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520247388
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering Orson Welles written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Paolo Mereghetti
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9782866427016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of Cinema: Orson Welles written by Paolo Mereghetti and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orson Welles was a complete auteur, a brilliant director and scriptwriter, a prodigious actor of memorable physique and a figure of legend.