Explores Welles's vision of cities by following recurring themes across his work, including urban transformation, race relations and fascism, the utopian promise of cosmopolitanism, and romantic nostalgia for archaic forms of urban culture. Intro --...
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Explores Welles's vision of cities by following recurring themes across his work, including urban transformation, race relations and fascism, the utopian promise of cosmopolitanism, and romantic nostalgia for archaic forms of urban culture. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Prelude. A Nuisance in a Factory: Hollywood: 1939-48, 1956-58 -- Welles's U.S.A -- 1. The Decline and Fall of the Lincoln Republic -- 2. An Empire Upon an Empire: Citizen Kane (1941) -- 3. The Darkening Midland: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) -- Pan-America -- 4. Darkness and Fear: The Early Anti-fascist Thrillers -- 5. The Raucous Raggle-Taggle Jamboree of the Streets: It's All True (unfinished, 1942) -- 6. Ratline to Main Street: The Stranger (1946) -- 7. Port to Port: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) -- 8. The Border: Touch of Evil (1958) -- 9. Return to the Periphery: The Other Man (unproduced, 1977) -- Interlude. A Free Man Is Everywhere: Europe & Beyond: 1947-55, 1958-85 -- Postwar Europe -- 10. Skies and Rubblescape: Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955) -- 11. Lost in a Labyrinth: The Trial (1962) -- Immortal Stories -- 12. To Adore the Impossible -- 13. In the Land of Don Quixote -- Index.
