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At the end of the street in the shadow : Orson Welles and the city

Gear, Matthew Asprey, author

2016

Overview

The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities--from America's industrializing midlandto its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fortresses to its Kafkaesque labyrinths and postwar rubblescapes. His movies take us through dark streets to confront nightmarish struggles for power, the carnivalesque and bizarre, and the shadows and light of human character. This ambitious new study explores Welles's vision of cities by following recurring themes across his work, including urban transformation, race relations and fascism, the utopian promise of cosmopolitanism, and romantic nostalgia for archaic forms of urban culture. It focuses on the personal and political foundation of Welles's cinematic cities--the way he invents urban spaces on film to serve his dramatic, thematic, and ideological purposes. The book's critical scope draws on extensive research in international archives and builds on the work of previous scholars.

• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Subject: Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 Criticism and interpretation. / Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 Themes, motives. / Welles, Orson, 1915-1985. / Cities and towns in motion pictures.
• ISBN: 9780231173407, 0231173407, 9780231173414, 0231173415

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1998.3.W45 G43 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE