Overview
Fleeing a Hollywood that spurned him, orson welles arrived in Italy in 1947 to begin his career anew. far from being welcomed as the celebrity who directed and starred in Citizen Kane, his six-year exile in Italy was riddled with controversy, financial struggles, disastrous love affairs, and failed projects.
Full Product Details
Author: Alberto Anile ,
Marcus Perryman ,
Alberto Anile
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.658kg
ISBN: 9780253010414
ISBN 10: 0253010411
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 25 September 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a path-breaking study that will be useful both to Welles scholars and to students of Italian cinema. - James O. Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles Anile's carefully documented and illustrated chronicle promises to overturn - or at the very least, challenge - certain received ideas about Welles's European reputation by revealing that it was in some ways as checkered and as ambivalent as his reputation in the US. - Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of Discovering Orson Welles [I]t is remarkable that Alberto Anile has managed to spot a niche that previous biographers have neglected. The gap in the record is the six year period between 1947-53, when Welles was based in Italy... It makes for a tale packed with vivid and intriguing vignettes...By focusing exclusively on this interlude in Welles's career, anile manages to capture something of the essence of his talent and personality- that mix of preternatural genius, wit and narcissistic, self-defeating excess - and something too of the fizzing glamour of film and celebrity industries of post-war Rome...The book is highly entertaining and at times illuminating, expertly translated and introduced by Marcus Perryman. - Robert Gordon, Times Literary Supplement
<p> Anile's carefully documented and illustrated chronicle promises to overturn--or at the very least, challenge--certain received ideas about Welles's European reputation by revealing that it was in some ways as checkered and as ambivalent as his reputation in the US. --Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of Discovering Orson Welles--Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of Discovering Orson Welles
Author Information
Alberto Anile is an Italian film critic and journalist. He is author of several books and essays about director Roberto Rossellini and comedy actor Totò. His last book (with Maria Gabriella Giannice) concerns Luchino Visconti's The Leopard. Marcus Perryman is editor and translator (with Peter Robinson) of The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni.
