La obra cinematográfica del autor Orson Welles compone una reflexión profunda en torno a la idea de simulación. Desde su ópera prima, Ciudadano Kane, hasta última película ficción, Una historia inmortal, sus once largometrajes revelan presencia reiterada diversos objetos simbólicos que así lo evidencian: proyectores y cinematógrafos, máscaras velos, reflejos espejos, luces sombras, o escenarios...

Few American directors have been as manifestly preoccupied with the uses and abuses of the media as Orson Welles. He became instantly famous in 1938 when his radio show The War of the Worlds, a simulation of a news broadcast announcing that Martians had just invaded New Jersey, managed to induce mass panic in an audience who took the hoax for an actual event.' People packed the roads, hid in ce...

This article explores the financing and production history of The Trial (1963), produced by Alexander Salkind directed Orson Welles. It draws upon archive completion guarantor Film Finances to document complex ecology Trial, an international co-production involving investors from multiple countries with finance raised through pre-sale distribution rights. was bedevilled numerous financial irreg...

'…in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace-and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock'. Orson Welles as Harry Lime: The Third Man. Orson Welles might have been a little unfair on t...

This study tested the role of audio soundtrack in opening scene Orson Welles’s Touch Evil (Orson Welles and Albert Zugsmith, 1958) supporting a predictive inference that time bomb will explode, as filmmakers intended. We designed two experiments interpreted their results using Scene Perception Event Comprehension Theory (SPECT). Across both experiments, viewers watched scene, we manipulated kno...

In 1927, Orson Welles directed Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus for the Federal Theatre Project, in an original interpretation of Hallie Flanagan’s dream a “people’s theatre.” While available archives allow examination Welles’s experiment popular classicism and invite comparisons with work French theatre-makers, they also call awareness part played by our imagination such retrospective research.