Orson Welles in focus : texts and contexts / edited by James N. Gilmore and Sidney Gottlieb ; foreword by James Naremore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naremore, James, author of foreword.

Contributor:

Gilmore, James, 1989- editor.

Gottlieb, Sidney, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welles, Orson, 1915-1985--Criticism and interpretation.

Welles, Orson.

Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]

Contents:

Inroduction: the totality of Orson Welles / Sidney Gottlieb and James N. Gilmore

The death of the auteur: Orson Welles, Asadata Dafora, and the 1936 Macbeth / Marguerite Rippy

Revisiting "War of the worlds": first-person narration in golden age radio drama / Shawn Vancour

Old-time movies: Welles and silent pictures / Matthew Solomon

Orson Welles's itineraries in it's all true: from "lived topography" to Pan. American transculturation / Catherine L. Benamou

Orson Welles as journalist: the New York post columns / Sidney Gottlieb

Progressivism and the struggles against racism and antisemitism: Welles's correspondences in 1946 / James N. Gilmore

Multimedia magic in Around the world: Orson Welles's film-and-theater hybrid / Vincent Longo

"The worst possible partners for movie production": Orson Welles, Louis Dolivet and the Filmorsa years (1953-56) / Francois Thomas

Presenting Orson Welles: an exhibition challenge / Craig S. Simpson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Orson Welles in focus.

ISBN:

9780253032942

0253032946

9780253032959

0253032954

OCLC:

1003193163