Discovering Orson Welles

Name: Discovering Orson Welles
ISBN: 9780520251236

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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 Welles?some thirty-five years of them?and 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.

Format: 336 pages, Paperback
First published: 2007
Publishers: University of California Press
Language: English

I was hoping for more of a biography of his life rather than a review of his works.

Former "Chicago Reader" chief film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has dedicated much of his career to an exploration of the work of America's greatest - and most misunderstood - filmmaker, editing the book of interviews "This is Orson Welles", contributing to the most recent re-edit of TOUCH OF EVIL, transalting an Andre Bazin book on Welles into English, etc. He had the fortune to meet the director once himself, as a young critic, in Paris in the early 1970s, and that brief meeting has repercussions and echoes that appear throughout this, his first collection of essays devoted entirely to Welles.

I have always been a fan of Orson Welles on radio and television. Having collected a ton of radio broadcasts on CD and audio cassette and having watched most of his movies, I appreciate the genius of his work.

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