Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles - Hardcover

Thomson, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679418342 ISBN 13: 9780679418344

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

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An incisive portrait of the life and career of Orson Welles describes his early success in the worlds of radio, theater, and film; the boredom and self-destructive impulses that led to his rapid decline; and his colorful personal life. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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imes Notable Book of the Year

"Easily the best book on Orson Welles."  --The New Yorker

Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into "a sustaining tragedy"--his thing, his song.  Now the prodigal genius of the American cinema finally has the biographer he deserves. For, as anyone who has read his novels and criticism knows, David Thomson is one of our most perceptive and splendidly opinionated writers on film.

In Rosebud, Thomson follows the wild arc of Welles's career, from The War of the Worlds broadcast to the triumph of Citizen Kane, the mixed triumph of The Magnificent Ambersons, and the strange and troubling movies that followed. Here, too, is the unfolding of the Welles persona--the grand gestures, the womanizing, the high liv

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679418342
• ISBN 13: 9780679418344
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 463