{"product_id":"orson-welles-interviews-9781578062096","title":"Orson Welles: Interviews","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mark W. Estrin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Entertainment \u0026amp; Performing Arts - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915-1985) was in the public eye. Originally published or broadcast between 1938 and 1989 in worldwide locations, these pieces confirm that Welles's career was multidimensional and thoroughly inter-woven with Welles's persona. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Several of them offer vivid testimony to his grasp on the public imagination in Welles's heyday, including accounts of his \u003ci\u003eWar of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e broadcast. Some interviews appear in English for the first time. Two transcriptions of British television interviews have never before appeared in print. Interviewers include Kenneth Tynan, French critic Andr� Bazin, and Gore Vidal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The subjects center on the performing arts but also embrace philosophy, religion, history, and, especially, American society and politics. Welles confronts painful topics: the attempts to suppress \u003ci\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e, RKO's mutilation of \u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003c\/i\u003e, his loss of directorial authority, his regret at never having run for political office, and his financial struggles. \"I would have sold my soul\" to play Marlon Brando's role as Don Corleone in \u003ci\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e, he tells a BBC interviewer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Welles deflates the notion of the film director's omnipotence, insisting that it is only in the editing studio that he possesses \"absolute control.\" With scholarly erudition, Welles revels in the plays of Shakespeare and discusses their adaptation to stage and screen. He assesses rival directors and eminent actors, offers penetrating analyses of \u003ci\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTouch of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChimes at Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Third Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and declares that he never made a film that lacked an ethical point-of-view. These conversations reveal the majestic mind and talent of Welles from a fresh perspective.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614277058711,"sku":"9781578062096","price":2969.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781578062096.webp?v=1775092341","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/orson-welles-interviews-9781578062096","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}