Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture - (Film and Culture) by Michael Anderegg (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Anderegg considers Welles's influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for twentieth-century American popular audiences, drawing on his knowledge of the abundant, lowbrow popularity of Shakespeare in nineteenth-century America. Welles's three film adaptations of Shakespeare, <i>Macbeth, Othello, </i> and <i>Chimes at Midnight, </i> are examined.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Anderegg considers Welles's influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for twentieth-century American popular audiences, drawing on his knowledge of the abundant, lowbrow popularity of Shakespeare in nineteenth-century America. Welles's three film adaptations of Shakespeare, <i>Macbeth, Othello, </i> and <i>Chimes at Midnight, </i> are examined.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A valuable and much-needed contribution to Welles studies. Anderegg's book represents for me an important intervention that throws light not only on certain neglected aspects of Welles's work--particullarly <i>Everybody's Shakespeare</i> and the Mercury Text Records--but also on a fresh new approach toward understanding his career as a whole.--Jonathan Rosenbaum, editor of <i>This is Orson Welles</i><br><br>Andregg provides an eloquent illustration of how, when Welles scholarship is at its best, it avoids the biographical and panoramic in favor of a particular theme or angle of investigation and, in the course of pursuing that angle, brings a fresh understanding to the Wellesian tapestry as a whole.--Catherine Benamou "Michigan Quarterly Review "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael Anderegg is professor of English at the University of North Dakota. He is the editor of <i>Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television, </i> and author of <i>David Lean</i> and <i>William Wyler.</i>
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