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What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? : A Portrait of an Independent Career

At twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely considered the best film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regai...

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Auteur principal: McBride, Joseph
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:At twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely considered the best film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. Frustrated by Hollywood and falling victim to the postwar blacklist, Welles departed for a long European exile. But he kept making films, functioning with the creative freedom of an independent filmmaker be.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (368 pages).
ISBN:9780813145952