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Book SynopsisExplores 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.
Trade ReviewAn impressive work of archival research and film analysis... A valuable contribution to the scholarly literature on cinematic places. Mediapolis Asprey Gear's At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City has much to offer anyone interested in the numerous projects brought into being by Welles. afterimage
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Prelude. A Nuisance in a Factory: Hollywood: 1939-48, 1956-58 Welles's U.S.A 1. The Decline and Fall of the Lincoln Republic 2. An Empire Upon an Empire: Citizen Kane (1941) 3. The Darkening Midland: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Pan-America 4. Darkness and Fear: The Early Anti-fascist Thrillers 5. The Raucous Raggle-Taggle Jamboree of the Streets: It's All True (unfinished, 1942) 6. Ratline to Main Street: The Stranger (1946) 7. Port to Port: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) 8. The Border: Touch of Evil (1958) 9. Return to the Periphery: The Other Man (unproduced, 1977) Interlude. A Free Man Is Everywhere: Europe & Beyond: 1947-55, 1958-85 Postwar Europe 10. Skies and Rubblescape: Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955) 11. Lost in a Labyrinth: The Trial (1962) Immortal Stories 12. To Adore the Impossible 13. In the Land of Don Quixote Index
