Orson Welles in Italy

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Drawing on revelatory new material on the artist's personal and professional life abroad, Orson Welles in Italy chronicles Italian cinema's transition from the social concerns of neorealism to the alienated characters in films such as Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, amid the cultural politics of postwar Europe and the beginnings of the cold war. "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 Zusammenfassung Depicts the artist's life and work in Italy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Preface Introduction 1. Arrival Orson Welles: "Hollywood . . . teaches nothing anymore" 2. Pizza with Togliatti 3. Black Magic 4. Dolce Vita Franca Faldini: "It was just an adolescent flirtation" 5. Citizen Kane 6. Life after Rita 7. The Fall of Macbeth Alfredo Todisco: A Necktie with Dedication 8. Othello Begins Shooting 9. Scalera Gets Cold Feet 10. The Last Desdemona Alvaro Mancori: "Every now and then he would shout, 'Traitors!'" 11. Blessed and Damned 12. Waiting for Othello Tullio Kezich: "A maverick filmmaker" 13. Reviewing Othello: The World Premiere 14. Byzantine Timekeeping 15. Going, Going, Gone Gian Luigi Rondi: "I have changed my mind only about Citizen Kane" 16. Welles and Rossellini Appendix 1: The Italian Version of Othello Appendix 2: The Opinion of the Catholic Center for Cinematography Notes Index ...

Klappentext
Drawing on revelatory new material on the artist's personal and professional life abroad, Orson Welles in Italy chronicles Italian cinema's transition from the social concerns of neorealism to the alienated characters in films such as Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, amid the cultural politics of postwar Europe and the beginnings of the cold war.

Zusammenfassung
Depicts the artist's life and work in Italy.

Inhalt
Translator's Preface
Introduction
1. Arrival
Orson Welles: "Hollywood . . . teaches nothing anymore"
2. Pizza with Togliatti
3. Black Magic
4. Dolce Vita
Franca Faldini: "It was just an adolescent flirtation"
5. Citizen Kane
6. Life after Rita
7. The Fall of Macbeth
Alfredo Todisco: A Necktie with Dedication
8. Othello Begins Shooting
9. Scalera Gets Cold Feet
10. The Last Desdemona
Alvaro Mancori: "Every now and then he would shout, 'Traitors!'"
11. Blessed and Damned
12. Waiting for Othello
Tullio Kezich: "A maverick filmmaker"
13. Reviewing Othello: The World Premiere
14. Byzantine Timekeeping
15. Going, Going, Gone
Gian Luigi Rondi: "I have changed my mind only about Citizen Kane"
16. Welles and Rossellini
Appendix 1: The Italian Version of Othello
Appendix 2: The Opinion of the Catholic Center for Cinematography
Notes
Index

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