Orson Welles' Artwork

A "granular history" (Wall Street Journal) of the greatest hoax in radio history and the panic that followed, whichPublishers Weeklycalls "a rollicking portrait of a director on th...

Abstract Citizen Kane is arguably the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. No other film is quite so interesting from both artisti...

This chapter examines the relation between the ‘second moment of authorship’, in which the author ratifies the work as his or her own, and another crucial but often overlooked aspe...

Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and M...

What is Mars? From the ancients to the present, we have imagined Mars repeatedly and studied it longingly. As scientific knowledge of Mars has changed, so has the cultural imaginat...

Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines the dramatic form and style cent...

What was Cubism? How did this strange new way of making paintings and sculptures enable artists so decisively to change the trajectory of ‘Modern Art’? In responding to these quest...