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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Orson Welles"”.
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Orson Welles' intermedial versions of Shakespeare in theatre, radio and film
… being a keyfigure in the history of filmmaking, Orson Welles was an original theatre director and radio performer and producer. The aim of this thesis is to study Welles' achievements and failures in theatre, radio and film, as well as comparing his craft and techniques in each medium during his …
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Free Will: Orson Welles and the Remediation of American Shakespeare, 1930--1948
Welles conceived his projects to educate spectators about Shakespeare and warn them against the coercive power of media itself. Later chapters focus on Welles' adaptation of particular plays for different media. In each case, I examine how Welles' remediation of Shakespeare amplifies the relevance …
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“In the same figure, like the king that’s dead”: The Phantasmic Authorship of The Other Side of the Wind
… object, credited by its distributor as a film by Orson Welles. Because an auteurist question is only one that can be resolved by an auteurist reading, this thesis travels the length of Welles’s filmography to attempt to create a composite image of what a film by Orson Welles is, and to compare …
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Writing and directing the short film "Before it's gone".
… (Marcel Proust, Patrick Modiano), and filmic (Orson Welles, Alain Resnais) influences that informed the film. As an academic turned filmmaker, this thesis also chronicles my first forays into filmmaking, as well as the lessons learned throughout the production of "Before It's Gone."
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
… as a medium, tracing a maternal genealogy from Orson Welles’ *Citizen Kane* (1941) to Chantal Akerman’s *Jeanne Dielman* (1975). I situate the project in relation to existing scholarship and reflect on how the specificity of art cinema shapes the representation of transgression and ambivalent …
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Get Flanagan: The Rise and Fall of the Federal Theatre Project
This thesis is an attempt to render theatrically the establishment and eventual dissolution of the Federal Theatre Project, from the point of view of its appointed director Hallie Flanagan. Drawn from a variety of historical sources, including subjective first-person accounts and objective …