The Magnificent Ambersons (eBook)

A Reconstruction

Robert L. Carringer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
318 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91262-5 (ISBN)

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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.


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 fil

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1942 • american films • biographical • Biography • Cinema • classic movies • cutting continuity • deleted footage • famous directors • film criticism • film historians • Film History • Film Studies • Golden age of Hollywood • magnificent ambersons • movie lovers • Movies • movies reference • movie theory • Orson Welles • performing arts • rare studio documents • rko studios • Turning Point
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91262-4 / 0520912624
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91262-5 / 9780520912625