Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
Author: Harlan Lebo
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250077532

"A Thomas Dunne book." d manipulation, and other tactics --A

The Citizen Kane Book

The Citizen Kane Book
Author: Pauline Kael
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1971
Genre: Motion picture plays
ISBN: 9780436230318

The Making of Citizen Kane, Revised Edition

The Making of Citizen Kane, Revised Edition
Author: Robert L. Carringer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1996-10-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780520205673

Citizen Kane, widely considered the greatest film ever made, continues to fascinate critics and historians as well as filmgoers. While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, Carringer's pioneering study documents the shared creative achievements of Welles and his principal collaborators. The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system. This new edition includes a revised preface and overview of criticism, an updated chronology of the film's reception history, a reconsideration of the locus of responsibility of Welles's ill-fated The Magnificent Ambersons, and new photographs.

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
Author: Diana Barnes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2006
Genre: Citizen Kane (Motion picture)
ISBN:

Walking Shadows

Walking Shadows
Author: John Evangelist Walsh
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780299205003

Walking Shadows dramatically dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and famous young actor, director, and filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. In 1940 and 1941 it became the center of public controversy and scandal, especially in Hollywood where Welles's own stark honesty and blatant self-confidence heightened the drama. Citizen Kane portrayed the ruthless career of an all-powerful magnate bearing (not accidentally) a striking resemblance to Hearst, who immediately tried to kill the picture. John Evangelist Walsh here illuminates the conflict between these two outsize personalities and for the first time brings Hearst's vengeful anti-Kane campaign to the fore. Walsh provides thorough documentation, supplemental notes, and an extended bibliography.

Young Orson

Young Orson
Author: Patrick McGilligan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 1017
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062112503

“A remarkable, eye-opening biography . . . McGilligan’s Orson is a Welles for a new generation, [a portrait] in tune with Patti Smith’s Just Kids.”—A. S. Hamrah, Bookforum No American artist or entertainer has enjoyed a more dramatic rise than Orson Welles. At the age of sixteen, he charmed his way into a precocious acting debut in Dublin’s Gate Theatre. By nineteen, he had published a book on Shakespeare and toured the United States. At twenty, he directed a landmark all-black production of Macbeth in Harlem, and the following year masterminded the legendary WPA production of Marc Blitzstein’s agitprop musical The Cradle Will Rock. After founding the Mercury Theatre, he mounted a radio production of The War of the Worlds that made headlines internationally. Then, at twenty-four, Welles signed a Hollywood contract granting him unprecedented freedom as a writer, director, producer, and star—paving the way for the creation of Citizen Kane, considered by many to be the greatest film in history. Drawing on years of deep research, acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan conjures the young man’s Wisconsin background with Dickensian richness and detail: his childhood as the second son of a troubled industrialist father and a musically gifted, politically active mother; his youthful immersion in theater, opera, and magic in nearby Chicago; his teenage sojourns through rural Ireland, Spain, and the Far East; and his emergence as a maverick theater artist. Sifting fact from legend, McGilligan unearths long-buried writings from Welles’s school years; delves into his relationships with mentors Dr. Maurice Bernstein, Roger Hill, and Thornton Wilder; explores his partnerships with producer John Houseman and actor Joseph Cotten; reveals the truth of his marriage to actress Virginia Nicolson and rumored affairs with actresses Dolores Del Rio and Geraldine Fitzgerald (including a suspect paternity claim); and traces the story of his troubled brother, Dick Welles, whose mysterious decline ran counter to Orson’s swift ascent. And, through it all, we watch in awe as this whirlwind of talent—hailed hopefully from boyhood as a “genius”—collects the raw material that he and his co-writer, the cantankerous Herman J. Mankiewicz, would mold into the story of Charles Foster Kane. Filled with insight and revelation—including the surprising true origin and meaning of “Rosebud”—Young Orson is an eye-opening look at the arrival of a talent both monumental and misunderstood.

My Lunches with Orson

My Lunches with Orson
Author: Henry Jaglom
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-07-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0805097252

"There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs and lows of his astonishing career, the people he knew--FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Rita Hayworth, and more--and the many disappointments of his last years"--Dust jacket flap.

The Citizen Kane Crash Course in Cinematography

The Citizen Kane Crash Course in Cinematography
Author: David Worth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Cinematography
ISBN: 9781932907469

A graphic textbook that provides a fictional account of how legendary filmmakers, Orson Welles and Gregg Toland, learned the art of cinematography.

Interpreting the Moving Image

Interpreting the Moving Image
Author: Noel Carroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1998-05-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780521589703

A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
Author: Laura Mulvey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 183871507X

Citizen Kane's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What more can there be to say about a masterpiece so universally acknowledged? Laura Mulvey, in a fresh and original reading, illuminates the richness of the film, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles's political background and its historical context. In a lucid and perceptive critique she also investigates the psychoanalytic structure that underlies the film's presentation of Kane's biography, for once taking seriously what Orson Welles himself disparagingly referred to as 'dollar-book Freud.' In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Laura Mulvey focuses on the film's politics, highlighting the contemporary 'rhymes' in Kane's portrayal of a scandal-prone press baron in a time of economic crisis.