Contents
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
PRELUDE
A NUISANCE IN A FACTORY | Hollywood: 1939–48, 1956–58
WELLES’S U.S.A.
1. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE LINCOLN REPUBLIC
2. AN EMPIRE UPON AN EMPIRE |
Citizen Kane
(1941)
3. THE DARKENING MIDLAND |
The Magnificent Ambersons
(1942)
PAN-AMERICA
4. DARKNESS AND FEAR | The Early Anti-fascist Thrillers
5. THE RAUCOUS RAGGLE-TAGGLE JAMBOREE OF THE STREETS
It’s All True
(unfinished, 1942)
6. RATLINE TO MAIN STREET |
The Stranger
(1946)
7. PORT TO PORT |
The Lady from Shanghai
(1947)
8. THE BORDER |
Touch of Evil
(1958)
9. RETURN TO THE PERIPHERY |
The Other Man
(unproduced, 1977)
INTERLUDE
A FREE MAN IS EVERYWHERE | Europe & Beyond: 1947–55, 1958–85
POSTWAR EUROPE
10. SKIES AND RUBBLESCAPE |
Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report
(1955)
11. LOST IN A LABYRINTH |
The Trial
(1962)
IMMORTAL STORIES
12. TO ADORE THE IMPOSSIBLE
13. IN THE LAND OF DON QUIXOTE
Index