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At the end of the street in the shadow : Orson Welles and the city / Matthew Asprey Gear.
LIBRA PN1998.3.W45 G43 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gear, Matthew Asprey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welles, Orson, 1915-1985--Criticism and interpretation.
- Welles, Orson.
- Welles, Orson, 1915-1985--Themes, motives.
- Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
- Cities and towns in motion pictures.
- Themes, motives.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Wallflower Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities--from America's industrializing midlandto its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fortresses to its Kafkaesque labyrinths and postwar rubblescapes. His movies take us through dark streets to confront nightmarish struggles for power, the carnivalesque and bizarre, and the shadows and light of human character. This ambitious new study explores Welles's vision of cities by following recurring themes across his work, including urban transformation, race relations and fascism, the utopian promise of cosmopolitanism, and romantic nostalgia for archaic forms of urban culture. It focuses on the personal and political foundation of Welles's cinematic cities--the way he invents urban spaces on film to serve his dramatic, thematic, and ideological purposes. The book's critical scope draws on extensive research in international archives and builds on the work of previous scholars.
- Contents:
- Welles's U.S.A.
- 1 The Decline and Fall of the Lincoln Republic 21
- 2 An Empire Upon an Empire: Citizen Kane (1941) 33
- 3 The Darkening Midland: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 49
- Pan-America
- 4 Darkness and Fear: The Early Anti-Fascist Thrillers 77
- 5 The Raucous Raggle-Taggle Jamboree of the Streets It's All True (Unfinished, 1942) 99
- 6 Ratline to Main Street: The Stranger (1946) 125
- 7 Port to Port: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) 145
- 8 The Border: Touch of Evil (1958) 163
- 9 Return to the Periphery: The Other Man (unproduced, 1977) 181
- Interlude: A Free Man is Everywhere: Europe & Beyond: 1947-55, 1958-85 193
- Postwar Europe
- 10 Skies and Rubblescape: Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955) 203
- 11 Lost in a Labyrinth: The Trial (1962) 225
- Immortal Stories
- 12 To Adore the Impossible 243
- 13 In The Land of Don Quixote 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231173407
- 0231173407
- 9780231173414
- 0231173415
- OCLC:
- 920541480
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