Classic and Modern: two literary adaptations by Orson Welles
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2010.741n1005Keywords:
Shakespeare, Orson Welles, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, The Tempest, Chimes at Midnight, Touch of Evil, Mr. Arkadin, The Inmortal Story, Yhe Dreamers, Kurosawa, The Bad Sleep Well, Jacques Tourneur, Cat People, I walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man, Jean Luc Godard, Detective, Isak DinesenAbstract
The main purpose of this paper is to study the importance of Orson Welles as filmmaker in two different ways. Firstly, as regards his adaptations from Shakespeare’s texts. Among these Macbeth, focusing mainly on Jacques Tourner’s influence with his work I walked with a Zombie and the strategies used to build a film using fantastic terror clues. In the second part of the paper, Welles is studied in relation to his interest in Isak Dinesen’s work and his adaptation from The Inmortal Story.
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Blixen, Karen (1934). Siete cuentos góticos, Barcelona, Moguer.
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