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Author:   Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520251236

ISBN 10:   0520251237
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   02 May 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to Raising KANE 2. The Voice and the Eye: A Commentary on the HEART OF DARKNESS Script 3. Notes on a Conversation with Welles 4. First Impressions of F FOR FAKE 5. The Butterfly and the Whale: Orson Welles's F FOR FAKE 6. Prime Cut (The 107-Minute TOUCH OF EVIL) 7. Andre Bazin and the Politics of Sound in TOUCH OF EVIL 8. The Invisible Orson Welles: A First Inventory 9. Review of Biographies by Barbara Leaming and Charles Higham and a Critical Edition of TOUCH OF EVIL 10. Afterword to THE BIG BRASS RING, a Screenplay by Orson Welles (with Oja Kodar) 11. Wellesian: Quixote in a Trashcan (New York University Welles Conference) 12. Reviews of Citizen Welles and a Critical Edition of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT 13. Review of Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography 14. Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: A Two-Part Speculation 15. The Seven ARKADINs 16. OTHELLO Goes Hollywood 17. Truth and Consequence: On IT'S ALL TRUE: BASED ON AN UNFINISHED FILM BY ORSON WELLES 18. Afterword to THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, an Original Screenplay by Orson Welles 19. Orson Welles in the U.S.: An Exchange with Bill Krohn 20. The Battle over Orson Welles 21. TOUCH OF EVIL Retouched 22. Excerpt from Problems of Access: On the Trail of Some Festival Films and Filmmakers (On TOUCH OF EVIL) 23. Welles in the Lime Light: THE THIRD MAN 24. Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge 25. Orson Welles's Purloined Letter: F FOR FAKE 26. When Will--and How Can--We Finish Orson Welles's DON QUIXOTE? Appendix: The Present State of the Welles Film Legacy Index

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The intellectually insatiable Rosenbaum is just the person to dissect the myths and expose the inaccuracies that have grown to define the Welles legend. [It] has both breadth and depth. --American Cinematographer

The intellectually insatiable Rosenbaum is just the person to dissect the myths and expose the inaccuracies that have grown to define the Welles legend. [It] has both breadth and depth. American Cinematographer

Author Information

Jonathan Rosenbaum writes film criticism for the Chicago Reader and has written on film for many other publications. He is also the author of many books, including Movies as Politics (UC Press, 1997).

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