Walking Shadows: Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst, and Citizen Kane (Ray and Pat Brown Book)

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    Walking Shadows dramatically dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and famous young actor, director, and filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles’s groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. In 1940 and 1941 it became the center of public controversy and scandal, especially in Hollywood where Welles’s own stark honesty and blatant self-confidence heightened the drama.
    Citizen Kane portrayed the ...
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Overview

    Walking Shadows dramatically dissects the wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and famous young actor, director, and filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles’s groundbreaking film Citizen Kane. In 1940 and 1941 it became the center of public controversy and scandal, especially in Hollywood where Welles’s own stark honesty and blatant self-confidence heightened the drama.
    Citizen Kane portrayed the ruthless career of an all-powerful magnate bearing (not accidentally) a striking resemblance to Hearst, who immediately tried to kill the picture. John Evangelist Walsh here illuminates the conflict between these two outsize personalities and for the first time brings Hearst’s vengeful anti-Kane campaign to the fore. Walsh provides thorough documentation, supplemental notes, and an extended bibliography.
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"A sensitive treatment of a high-octane subject that has occupied the thinking of academics and Hollywood alike since the introduction of the movie Citizen Kane."—Ray Browne
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780299205003
  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Publication date: 11/28/2004
  • Series: Ray and Pat Browne Book Series
  • Edition description: 1
  • Pages: 301
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

John Evangelist Walsh, an independent writer and scholar, is the author of more than twenty works of biography and history, including The Execution of Major Andre; Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial; Unraveling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution; and Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. He lives in Monroe, Wisconsin.
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
Prologue: His Hour xiii
1 Sneak Preview 3
2 Boy Wonder 11
3 Aging Wonder 37
4 Conjuring Kane 63
5 On the Set 89
6 Stranded 103
7 Waters Rising 128
8 Flood Tide 150
9 Last Chance 182
10 Then Is Heard No More 209
Appendix A Citizen Kane in Film History 221
Appendix B Citizen Kane in Hearst Biography 225
Notes and Sources 235
Selected Bibliography 285
Index 293
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