(P/B) ORSON WELLES IN ITALY

Παρουσίαση

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. Alberto Anile's book depicts the artist's life and work in Italy, including his reception by the Italian press, his contentious interactions with key political figures, and his artistic output, which culminated in the filming of Othello. Drawing on revelatory new material on the artist's personal and professional life abroad, Orson Welles in Italy also 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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

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