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Book SynopsisCollects a film critic's writings on Orson Welles - some thirty-five years of them - and makes a case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist and Welles the man.
Trade Review"The intellectually insatiable Rosenbaum is just the person to dissect the myths and expose the inaccuracies that have grown to define the Welles legend. [It] has both breadth and depth." American Cinematographer
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to "Raising KANE" 2. The Voice and the Eye: A Commentary on the HEART OF DARKNESS Script 3. Notes on a Conversation with Welles 4. First Impressions of F FOR FAKE 5. The Butterfly and the Whale: Orson Welles's F FOR FAKE 6. Prime Cut (The 107-Minute TOUCH OF EVIL) 7. Andre Bazin and the Politics of Sound in TOUCH OF EVIL 8. The Invisible Orson Welles: A First Inventory 9. Review of Biographies by Barbara Leaming and Charles Higham and a Critical Edition of TOUCH OF EVIL 10. Afterword to THE BIG BRASS RING, a Screenplay by Orson Welles (with Oja Kodar) 11. Wellesian: Quixote in a Trashcan (New York University Welles Conference) 12. Reviews of Citizen Welles and a Critical Edition of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT 13. Review of Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography 14. Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: A Two-Part Speculation 15. The Seven ARKADINs 16. OTHELLO Goes Hollywood 17. Truth and Consequence: On IT'S ALL TRUE: BASED ON AN UNFINISHED FILM BY ORSON WELLES 18. Afterword to THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, an Original Screenplay by Orson Welles 19. Orson Welles in the U.S.: An Exchange with Bill Krohn 20. The Battle over Orson Welles 21. TOUCH OF EVIL Retouched 22. Excerpt from "Problems of Access: On the Trail of Some Festival Films and Filmmakers" (On TOUCH OF EVIL) 23. Welles in the Lime Light: THE THIRD MAN 24. Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge 25. Orson Welles's Purloined Letter: F FOR FAKE 26. When Will--and How Can--We Finish Orson Welles's DON QUIXOTE? Appendix: The Present State of the Welles Film Legacy Index
