The Giant Orson Welles

the Artist and the Shadow

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by Youssef Daoudi

Type

Biographies

Subject

Director > Orson Welles

Keywords

Orson Welles

Publishing date

2025 (May 06, 2025)

Publisher

23rd St.

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 272 pages
8 x 10 ¼ inches (20 x 26 cm)

ISBN

978-1-250-80594-2

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Book Presentation:
“Gloriously unruly...an incisive look at an artist who never recovered from the success of his youth.” ―Publishers Weekly

From graphic novelist Youssef Daoudi comes a radically new look at the director of Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil: legendary filmmaker Orson Welles.

Long after his death in 1985, the shadow of Orson Welles still looms over Hollywood. By twenty-three, Welles had revolutionized theatre and radio with The War of the Worlds; by twenty-five, he had secured his place in history with his debut film, Citizen Kane. Yet four films and less than a decade later, his career suffered a spectacular collapse, and Welles, once the most promising director in America, was written off as a “would-be genius”―a bad bet in an increasingly money-conscious industry.

In The Giant, Youssef Daoudi weaves together reality and mythology to create a radical new look at one of Hollywood’s most legendary figures and poses a question as timeless as Orson Welles himself: What happens when a true artist comes up against the rest of the world?

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