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Orson Welles

Martin Fitzgerald

Publication: August 2010
Extent: 160 pp
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Price: 6.99
ISBN: 9781842432860
EAN: 9781842432860
13 Digit ISBN: 978-1-84243-286-0
Binding: paperback
Market: Film
Rights: World
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  • Reissue and update of a popular Pocket Essential
  • For Orson Welles fans, cinema history buffs and film students everywhere
  • Insight into the work and life of one of cinema’s most enigmatic and talented filmmakers
  • The ‘boy genius’ of Hollywood, Welles has inspired countless new directors
  • In-depth analysis of each of his projects, some unrealised

A fat guy with a deep voice who drank a lot of sherry? An unreliable film-maker who always went over time and over budget? One of the most innovative storytellers of the century? He was all of this and more. Welles shocked Broadway with his all-black voodoo version of Macbeth, challenged the US government with his production of The Cradle Will Rock, terrified America with his spoof radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, and then at the tender age of 26, directed what many people consider the greatest American film ever made: Citizen Kane.

What's in this Pocket Essential guide? As well as an introductory essay, each of Welles's films is individually reviewed and analysed, and there's a handy multimedia reference guide.

Martin Fitzgerald has written Pocket Essential Guides to Hong Kong's Heroic Bloodshed, Woody Allen and Orson Welles.

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on 0161 445 6635 or email chris-burrows@o2.co.uk

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