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Article: The Films of Orson Welles.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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The Films of Orson Welles
by Robert Garis. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 184 pp., illus. Hardcover: $60.00 and Paperback: $20.99.
Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life
by Peter Conrad. London: Faber and Faber, 2003. (Distributed in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). 384 pp. Illus. Hardcover: $25.00 and Paperback: $17.00,
Orson Welles was a highly literate and literary filmmaker, an artist of the word and the story as well as the image, cut, sequence, and sound. Somewhat less than a scholar but far more than a dilettante--critics often take him to task for not being the former and accuse him of being the latter--he ...