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The Films of Orson Welles (Cambridge Film Classics) [Paperback]

Robert Garis (Author)

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Series: Cambridge Film Classics | Publication Date: March 8, 2004

Offering a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, this book highlights the filmmaker's career, emphasizing his astonishing precocity and extraordinary talent that resulted in great success as well as puzzling failure. At the core of the book are sustained studies of Welles' masterpieces, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, and critically incisive accounts of his other major films, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, Macbeth, and Chimes at Midnight.

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted in both splendid successes and puzzling failures. At the core of this book are sustained readings of Welles' masterpieces, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, and critically incisive accounts of his other major films, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, Macbeth, and Chimes at Midnight.

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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 8, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521649722
ISBN-13: 978-0521649728
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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