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Sto caricando le informazioni... At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the Citydi Matthew Asprey Gear
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The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities ?from America's industrializing midland to its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fortresses to its Kafkaesque labyrinths and postwar rubblescapes. His movies take us through dark streets to confront nightmarish struggles for power, the carnivalesque and bizarre, and the shadows and light of human character.This ambitious new study explores Welles's vision of cities by following recurring themes across his work, including urban transformation, race relations and fascism, the utopian promise of cosmopolitanism, and romantic nostalgia for archaic forms of urban culture. It focuses on the personal and political foundation of Welles's cinematic cities ?the way he invents urban spaces on film to serve his dramatic, thematic, and ideological purposes.The book's critical scope draws on extensive research in international archives and builds on the work of previous scholars. Viewing Welles as a radical filmmaker whose innovative methods were only occasionally compatible with the commercial film industry, this volume examines the filmmaker's original vision for butchered films, such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Mr. Arkadin (1955), and considers many projects the filmmaker never completed ?an immense "shadow oeuvre" ranging from unfinished and unreleased films to unrealized treatments and screenplays. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This is part travel book and part life story, with some surprising facts also. For instance the film The Third Man, supposedly based in Vienna, was shot elsewhere, the carousel scene being the only Viennese scene in the film.
All in all a great tribute to a great man.
Very highly recommended.
I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Columbia University Press via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review. ( )