Discovering Orson Welles
- ISBN-10
- 0520247388
- ISBN-13
- 9780520247383
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Jonathan Rosenbaum
Description
'Discovering Orson Welles' collects Rosenbaum's writings to date on Welles and makes an irrefutable case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist and Welles the man. The book is also a chronicle of Rosenbaum's highly personal writer's journey and his efforts to arrive at the truth.
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