Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey

Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey

by Harlan Lebo
Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey

Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey

by Harlan Lebo

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Overview

A comprehensive history of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs behind the creation of one of the greatest films of all time, Citizen Kane.

2022 BRONZE Winner for Performing Arts & Music, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

CITIZEN KANE: A Filmmaker's Journey is an updated and expanded softcover of Lebo's 2016 hardcover that traces the creation of Orson's Welles's classic film. This filmland history is itself a sinister tale of conspiracy, blackmail, and Coummunist witch hunts, while detailing the extraordinary rise of Welles, the legend who, at 23 years old, defied the studio system and became a Hollywood icon simply by making the greatest film of all time.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626401013
Publisher: Angel City Press
Publication date: 01/18/2022
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 516,189
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Harlan Lebo is a senior fellow at the Center for the Digital Future in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He has written books about The Godfather, Casablanca, and a coffee-table book on Citizen Kane, and has served as a historical consultant to Paramount Pictures for the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Citizen Kane. He lives in California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

A Note on the Illustrations and the Text

Citizen Kane: A Recollection

PART ONE

1 Before the Beginning

2 The Beard and the Contract

3 The Script

4 The Consequences of His Actions

5 RKO Production #281

6 A Great Deal of Doing

7 No Visitors, Please

8 Giggling Like Schoolboys

9 Cryptic Notes and Bigger Hams

PART TWO

10 Conflict

11 Negotiating and Placating

12 Mr. Hearst

13 Release

14 Triumph

15 After the End

Viewer’s Guide to Citizen Kane

Cast and Production Credits

Gregg Toland: “I Broke the Rules in Citizen Kane”

Bernard Herrmann: A Conversation at the George

Eastman House

Citizen Kane: Scene- by- Scene Guide

The Bud get

RKO Soundstages

Resources About Orson Welles and Citizen Kane

Notes

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

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