The Films of Orson Welles

by Robert Garis

Book Overview

Offering a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, this book highlights the filmmaker's career, emphasizing his astonishing precocity and extraordinary talent that resulted in great success as well as puzzling failure. At the core of the book are sustained studies of Welles' masterpieces, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, and critically incisive accounts of his other major films, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521649722
• ISBN13: 9780521649728
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"