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Record Nr.

UNISA996248246203316

Autore

Carringer Robert L

Titolo

The magnificent Ambersons : a reconstruction / / Robert L. Carringer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993

ISBN

0-520-91262-4

0-585-34057-9

Edizione

[1 frontisp., Reprint 2020]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 307 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

791.43/72

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- OEDIPUS IN INDIANAPOLIS -- 2. A NOTE ON TEXTUAL PRACTICE -- 3. AN AMBERSON FAMILY CHRONOLOGY -- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS -- 5. EDITING AMBERSONS: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY -- CAST -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Orson Welles considered The Magnificent Ambersons the crucial turning point in his career. He said, "They destroyed Ambersons and it destroyed me." In 1942, while Welles was away, RKO Studios drastically recut the completed film. None of that deleted footage is known to survive.    Now film scholar Robert Carringer has reconstructed Welles's own version of Ambersons, using all available surviving evidence including rare studio documents and the recollections of Welles himself and other original participants in the film.    Carringer reaches startling conclusions about where the responsibility for the film's undoing ultimately lies. His spellbinding--and no doubt controversial--book will be eagerly welcomed by film historians and enthusiasts.