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Orson Welles 1915-1985 °Kenosha, Wis., USA. --- Film ; regisseurs ; Orson Welles --- 791.43.07 --- Filmregisseurs, acteurs, filmografen --- Maurice Bessy --- film --- Verenigde Staten --- Welles Orson --- 791.471 WELLES --- Welles, Orson --- Orson Welles 1915-1985 °Kenosha, Wis., USA
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Difficult as it is to imagine today, in 1937 America's two leading media companies fought over the right to perform Shakespeare for an American radio audience in an attempt to bring prestige to their networks. The resulting fourteen broadcasts are among the more remarkable recreations of Shakespeare of their time. This lively and engaging book shows the cultural dominance of radio in the 1930s, and tells the story of why the networks each wanted to lord Shakespeare's prestige over the other, how they put their series together, the critical reception, and the cultural impact and legacies of the broadcasts.
Radio plays --- Social aspects --- Shakespeare, William, --- Audio adaptations --- History and criticism. --- Adaptation. --- CBS. --- Columbia Shakespeare Cycle. --- Edward G. Robinson. --- Humphrey Bogart. --- John Barrymore. --- NBC. --- Old Time Radio. --- Orson Welles. --- Radio Shakespeare. --- Radio Summer Series.
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In 1895, Louis Lumière supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a wide-ranging series of his essays on movies past and present. These essays include discussions of authorship, adaptation, and acting; commentaries on Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, John Huston, and Stanley Kubrick; and reviews of more recent work by non-Hollywood directors Pedro Costa, Abbas Kiarostami, Raúl Ruiz, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Important themes recur: the relations between modernity, modernism, and postmodernism; the changing mediascape and death of older technologies; and the need for robust critical writing in an era when print journalism is waning and the humanities are devalued. The book concludes with essays on four major American film critics: James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris, and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Film --- Motion pictures. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- acting. --- adaptation. --- alfred hitchcock. --- american cinema. --- andrew sarris. --- authorship. --- cinema in the digital age. --- cinema. --- death of cinema. --- digital age. --- film and television. --- film criticism. --- film. --- filmmaking. --- history of cinema. --- howard hawks. --- humanities. --- james agee. --- john huston. --- jonathan rosenbaum. --- literary studies. --- manny farber. --- mediascape. --- modernism. --- modernity and film. --- movies. --- orson welles. --- postmodernism and film. --- postmodernity. --- print journalism. --- stanley kubrick. --- technology. --- vincente minnelli.
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Orson Welles's greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion-a landmark in the history of radio's powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio's America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in the twentieth century, and Lenthall explains that radio's appeal came from its capability to personalize an increasingly impersonal public arena. His depictions of such figures as proto-Fascist Charles Coughlin and medical quack John Brinkley offer penetrating insight into radio's use as a persuasive tool, and Lenthall's book is unique in its exploration of how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. Television inherited radio's cultural role, and as the voting tallies for American Idol attest, broadcasting continues to occupy a powerfully intimate place in American life. Radio's America reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.
Radio broadcasting --- Radio --- Radio industry and trade --- Broadcasting --- Mass media --- History. --- Social aspects --- United States --- History --- radio communications, culture, great depression, 20th century, united states, operations, media studies, orson welles, citizen kane, war of the worlds, broadcasts, audience, alien invasion, powerful relationship, enormous impact, depression-era americans, government, economiy, economics, stock market crash, poverty, entertainment, impersonal public arena, john brinkley, charles coughlin, persuasive tool, television, cultural role.
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Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length biography of Parsons tells the story of her reign over Hollywood during the studio era, her lifelong alliance with her employer, William Randolph Hearst, and her complex and turbulent relationships with such noted stars, directors, and studio executives as Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Louis B. Mayer, Ronald Reagan, and Frank Sinatra-as well as her rival columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell. Loved by fans for her "just folks," small-town image, Parsons became notorious within the film industry for her involvement in the suppression of the 1941 film Citizen Kane and her use of blackmail in the service of Hearst's political and personal agendas. As she traces Parsons's life and career, Samantha Barbas situates Parsons's experiences in the broader trajectory of Hollywood history, charting the rise of the star system and the complex interactions of publicity, journalism, and movie-making. Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, The First Lady of Hollywood is both an engrossing chronicle of one of the most powerful women in American journalism and film and a penetrating analysis of celebrity culture and Hollywood power politics.
Gossip columnists --- Journalists --- Parsons, Louella O. --- american journalism. --- american movie columnist. --- american screenwriter. --- blackmail. --- celebrity culture. --- citizen kane. --- film industry. --- film journalism. --- frank sinatra. --- hedda hopper. --- hollywood history. --- hollywood power politics. --- hollywood. --- joan crawford. --- louella parsons. --- louella rose oettinger. --- louis b mayer. --- marion davies. --- movie gossip columnist. --- orson welles. --- queen of hollywood gossip. --- ronald reagan. --- studio era. --- the first lady of hollywood. --- walter winchell. --- william randolph hearst.
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"Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell's richly detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, published in 2012. This second volume charts the studio's fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the post-war period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s. With unparalleled access to archival materials, Jewell chronicles the period from 1942 to the company's demise in 1957. Some of the towering figures associated with the studio were Howard Hughes, Orson Welles, Charles Koerner, Val Lewton, Jane Russell, and Robert Mitchum. In addition to its colorful cast of characters, the RKO narrative features key moments in entertainment history: Hollywood collaboration with Washington, film noir, censorship, HUAC, the rise of independent film production, and the impact of television on film. Taken as a whole, Jewell's two-volume study represents the most substantial and insightful exploration of the Hollywood studio system to date"--Provided by publisher.
RKO Radio Pictures --- History. --- Radio Keith Orpheum Radio Pictures, inc. --- RKO Radio Pictures, inc. --- RKO-Pathe --- RKO Teleradio Pictures --- Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation --- Radio Pictures --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. --- RKO Distributing Corp. --- RKO General, inc. --- RKO Productions --- Film --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- United States --- 20th century. --- charles koerner. --- cinema. --- classic hollywood. --- early 20th century film studios. --- early filmmaking. --- early hollywood. --- entertainment history. --- film censorship. --- film history. --- film noir. --- film studies. --- film. --- hollywood studio system. --- hollywood. --- howard hughes. --- independent film production. --- jane russell. --- media history. --- media studies. --- movies. --- orson welles. --- rko film studios. --- rko films. --- rko radio pictures. --- robert mitchum. --- television. --- val lewton. --- United States of America
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Variously described as a work of genius, a pretentious wreck, a crucially important film, and a victim of its director's ego, among other things, It's All True, shot in Mexico and Brazil between 1941 and 1942, is the legendary movie that Orson Welles never got to finish. In this book, the most comprehensive and authoritative assessment of It's All True available, Catherine Benamou synthesizes a wealth of new and little-known source material gathered on two continents, including interviews with key participants, to present a compelling original view of the film and its historical significance. Her book challenges much received wisdom about Orson Welles and illuminates the unique place he occupies in American culture, broadly defined.
Unfinished films --- Unfinished motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Welles, Orson, --- Welles, George Orson, --- Uėlls, Orson, --- Gouels, Orson, --- Jeeves, O. W., --- Spelvin, G. O., --- Magnificent Ambersons (Motion picture) --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Welles, Orson --- Welles, George Orson --- Uėlls, Orson --- Gouels, Orson --- Jeeves, O. W. --- Spelvin, G. O. --- The gGeat One --- 1941. --- 1942. --- american culture. --- aspiring directors. --- biographical. --- brazil. --- cinema scholars. --- cinematic history. --- controversial figures. --- famous directors. --- film criticism. --- film culture. --- film historians. --- film history. --- film icons. --- film students. --- film studies. --- film textbooks. --- filming abroad. --- genius. --- historical significance. --- infamy. --- interviews. --- mexico. --- nonfiction. --- orson welles. --- pan american. --- retrospective. --- theatrical productions. --- unfinished movies.
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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.
Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Motion picture industry --- Biography --- Analysis, appreciation. --- History and criticism --- Employees --- Welles, Orson, --- Welles, George Orson, --- Uėlls, Orson, --- Gouels, Orson, --- Jeeves, O. W., --- Spelvin, G. O., --- Magnificent Ambersons (Motion picture) --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cinéma --- History --- Histoire --- Welles, Orson --- Welles, George Orson --- Uėlls, Orson --- Gouels, Orson --- Jeeves, O. W. --- Spelvin, G. O. --- The gGeat One --- american director. --- biographical. --- career. --- chimes at midnight. --- cinema. --- creative control. --- creative process. --- don quixote. --- f for fake. --- film criticism. --- film director. --- film studies. --- films. --- heart of darkness. --- hollywood. --- innovation. --- movie studies. --- movies. --- orson welles. --- othello. --- personal interviews. --- raising kane. --- studio memo. --- the big brass ring. --- the cradle will rock. --- the ultimate auteur. --- touch of evil. --- unfinished films. --- unfinished work. --- welles canon. --- Welles, orson, 1915-1985 --- Critique et interprétation
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André Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential Cahiers du Cinéma, which under his leadership became one of the world's most distinguished publications. Championing the films of Jean Renoir (who contributed a short foreword to Volume I), Orson Welles, and Roberto Rossellini, he became the protégé of François Truffaut, who honors him touchingly in his foreword to Volume II. This new edition includes graceful forewords to each volume by Bazin scholar and biographer Dudley Andrew, who reconsiders Bazin and his place in contemporary film study. The essays themselves are erudite but always accessible, intellectual, and stimulating. As Renoir puts it, the essays of Bazin "will survive even if the cinema does not."
Motion pictures. --- Performing arts. --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- Aesthetics --- Film --- auteur. --- bazin. --- cahiers du cinema. --- chaplin. --- cinema and screen. --- cinema. --- citizen kane. --- critical theory. --- cultural studies. --- digital film. --- directors. --- editing. --- eroticism. --- fellini. --- film and animation. --- film cinematography. --- film criticism. --- film genre. --- film history. --- film literature. --- film movements. --- film studies. --- film technique. --- film theory. --- film. --- filmmaking. --- french cinema. --- image culture. --- jean renoir. --- literary studies. --- mass media. --- media. --- neorealism. --- nonfiction. --- orson welles. --- roberto rossellini. --- surrealism. --- truffaut. --- visual culture. --- aesthetics. --- andre bazin. --- art criticism. --- charlie chaplin. --- cinematography. --- drama. --- film and art. --- film and media. --- flim. --- mixed cinema. --- montage. --- movies. --- narrative. --- performing arts. --- photography. --- sartre. --- sound cinema. --- technology. --- theater. --- total cinema.
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Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen
Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Šekspyras, --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shashibiya, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Shekspir, V. --- Szekspir, William, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Sha-ō, --- Şekspir, --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, U. --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Shakspir, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shakespeare, --- Śeksper, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- Stage history. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature and literary studies --- Literary studies: plays and playwrights / Shakespeare studies and criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Biography, Literature & Literary studies --- Shakespeare. --- Literature: history & criticism --- English. --- American identities. --- European Fascism. --- Georgia Shakespeare. --- Globe Theatre. --- John Barton. --- Julius Caesar. --- Lindsay Anderson. --- Margaret Thatcher. --- Orson Welles. --- Second World War. --- Trevor Nunn. --- global Caesars. --- minor films. --- modernist productions. --- new millenium. --- unknown accents.
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