ORSON WELLES

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Contents: ORSON WELLES: An Essay by Maurice Bessy Puer Eternus: The Eternal Child = 1 The Mountebank = 7 The Director = 15 Elements of Style = 24 At the Center: Power, Pain, and Evil = 32 A Vision of the World = 50 Of Love and Women = 61 Of Friends and Money = 76 The Public Man = 86 An Interior Voice = 97 Falstaff: The Joy of Goodness = 101 The Juice of Life = 106 TEXTS AND DOCUMENTS WELLES ON CINEMA Interview = 111 On Television = 113 On Editing = 114 I Am in Ecstasy in the Face of Human Function = 114 An "Entirety" of the Human Person = 115 SALOME: AN UNPUBLISHED SCREENPLAY = 118 ON CITIZEN KANE Roy Huss and Norman Silverstein: "Kane Elected" = 127 John Howard Lawson: Observation, Not Confrontation = 129 Stopped Time = 132 Louis Aragon: These Works That Are Like Love... = 134 Andre Bazin: Welles's "Discourse on Method" = 137 CRITICAL SPECTRUM Pauline Kael: Falstaff = 139 Stanley Kauffmann: The Trial = 141 Dwight Macdonald: Primitive Handicrafts = 144 Henri Agel: Wellesian Baroque = 145 André Bazin: A New Relationship Between Camera and Object = 148 WITNESSES: NOTES ON WELLES Jean Cocteau: Orson Welles Is a Poet... = 156 Alexandre Astruc: The Secret Dimension = 156 François Chalais: Béni soit qui mal y pense = 163 FILMOGRAPHY = 169 BIBLIOGRAPHY = 187 INDEX = 193

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