| Title | : | Touch of Evil: Orson Welles, Director (Rutgers Films in Print, Vol. 3) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081351097X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1985-06-01 |
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"Considered by many critics to be one of Welles's great works, the film gets a superb review in this first-rate anthology. Recommended." --Film Study "This is a welcome addition to the growing collection of scripts of film classics, one to put on the shelf next to Welles's Citizen Kane. Recommended." --Choice Welles is by consensus one of the most talented film directors who ever worked in Hollywood, and this flamboyant film--a 1958 exploration of the thriller form--is one of his greatest achievements. Comito's introduction considers the film's relation to the tradition of film noir and demonstrates how Welles's mastery of cinematic language transforms the materials of a routine thriller into a work that is at once a sardonic examination of the dark side of sexuality, and elegiac rumination on the loss of innocence, and a disquieting assault on the viewer's own moral and aesthetic certainties. Other contextual materials in the book include a biographical sketch of Welles; an important
Editorial : About the Author
Orson Welles (1915-1985) was an iconic Academy Award-winning director, writer, actor, and producer for film, stage, radio, and television. He won the 1941 Academy Award for best original screenplay for Citizen Kane and in 1970 received the Academy Honorary Award. Known for his baritone voice, he was well regarded as a radio and film actor, a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor, and an accomplished magician. He first gained notoriety for his October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Winner of multiple awards, he is now widely acknowledged as one of the most important dramatic artists of the twentieth century. In 2002, two British Film Institute polls of directors and critics voted Orson Welles the greatest film director of all time.
Great book.. The title of this book promises material on bodybuilding, relationships and other disasters and is very disappointing. Helheim is vikings, witches, monsters, magic, and a barbarian zombie all thrown together into a big melting pot, and, based on that premise alone, this book should be awesome - but it’s not. . When he was convinced of her innocence he was all in and the romance between them was hot. All the characters were used well, the story was interesting, and the art was great. The book doesn't dig too deeply into events which suits a more public audience, but at the same time it includes many quotes in untranslated German. The sewing is sound, but the quilt doesn't keep anything warm.. It was a little bit like a Psych 101 lecture, but for those of us who have not studied psychology in college, it was instructive, but still readable.
I really recommend this book. Beautifully and profusely illustrated throughout with more than four hundred illustration
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