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Discovering Orson Welles
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Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles's career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has long believed that to dwell on this aspect of the Welles canon is to overlook the wealth of information available by studying the unrealized works. Discovering Orson Welles collects Rosenbaum's writings to date on Wellesâsome thirty-five years of themâand makes an irrefutable case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist and Welles the man. The book is also a chronicle of Rosenbaum's highly personal writer's journey and his efforts to arrive at the truth. The essays, interviews, and reviews are arranged chronologically and are accompanied by commentary that updates the scholarship. Highlights include Rosenbaum's 1972 interview with Welles about his first Hollywood project, Heart of Darkness; Rosenbaum's rebuttal to Pauline Kael's famous essay "Raising Kane"; detailed essays and comprehensive discussions of Welles's major unfinished work, including two unrealized projects, The Big Brass Ring and The Cradle Will Rock; and an account of Rosenbaum's work as consultant on the 1998 re-editing of Touch of Evil, based on a studio memo by Welles.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1.I Missed It at the Movies
- 2.The Voice and the Eye
- 3.Notes on a Conversation with Welles
- 4.First Impressions of F for Fake
- 5.The Butterfly and the Whale
- 6.Prime Cut
- 7.André Bazin and the Politics of Sound in Touch of Evil
- 8.The Invisible Orson Welles
- 9.Reviews 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
- 12.Reviews of Citizen Welles and a Critical Edition of Chimes at Midnight
- 13.Review of Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography
- 14.Orson Wellesâs Essay Films and Documentary Fictions
- 15.The Seven Arkadins
- 16. Othello Goes Hollywood
- 17.Truth and Consequence:
- 18.Afterword to The Cradle Will Rock, an Original Screenplay by Orson Welles
- 19. Orson Welles in the U.S.
- 20.The Battle over Orson Welles
- 21. Touch of Evil Retouched
- 22.Excerpt from âProblems of Access"
- 23.Welles in the Lime Light
- 24.Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge
- 25.Orson Wellesâs Purloined Letter: F for Fake
- 26.When Willâand How CanâWe Finish Orson Wellesâs Don Quixote?
- Appendix
- Index