Author: Matthew Asprey Gear File Type: pdf The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of citiesfrom Americas industrializing midland to its noirish borderlands, from Europes medieval fortresses to its Kafkaesque labyrinths and postwar rubblescapes. His movies take us through dark streets to confront nightmarish struggles for power, the carnivalesque and bizarre, and the shadows and light of human character.This ambitious new study explores Welless vision of cities by following recurring themes across his work, including urban transformation, race relations and fascism, the utopian promise of cosmopolitanism, and romantic nostalgia for archaic forms of urban culture. It focuses on the personal and political foundation of Welless cinematic citiesthe way he invents urban spaces on film to serve his dramatic, thematic, and ideological purposes.The books critical scope draws on extensive research in international archives and builds on the work of previous scholars. Viewing Welles as a radical filmmaker whose innovative methods were only occasionally compatible with the commercial film industry, this volume examines the filmmakers original vision for butchered films, such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Mr. Arkadin (1955), and considers many projects the filmmaker never completedan immense shadow oeuvre ranging from unfinished and unreleased films to unrealized treatments and screenplays.**ReviewAn impressive work of archival research and film analysis.... A valuable contribution to the scholarly literature on cinematic places. (Mediapolis) Asprey Gears At the End of the Street in the Shadow Orson Welles and the City has much to offer anyone interested in the numerous projects brought into being by Welles. (afterimage) ReviewWell researched, informative, and enjoyable to readan original, thoughtful commentary on Welles and modernity.(James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles) A timely book that pushes past many debates dotting the beaten path of Orson Welles criticism to consider the representation of the city, both as a physical location and an imaginary social space, in his film oeuvre. It considers incomplete and overlooked as well as unproduced works that have survived in script form the result is a historically grounded, globally conscious study that urges us to consider the importance of the built environment in Welless mises-en-scene, as well as his abiding concern with the politics of modernization.(Catherine L. Benamou, University of California, Irvine, author of Its All True Orson Welless Pan-American Odyssey) A valuable contribution to Welles studies - well researched, highly readable, and full of fresh insights. (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader film critic, author of Discovering Orson Welles)

Author: Thomas Barrie File Type: pdf House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently, house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles, and have been assiduously represented in scripture, literature, art, and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture, houses for their gods, and house tombs for eternal life. Turning to more recent topics, it discusses how writers often used simple huts as a means to address the essentials of existence modernist architects envisioned the capacity of house and home to improve society and the suburban house was positioned as a superior setting for culture and family. Throughout the book, house and home are critically examined to illustrate the perennial role and capacity of architecture to articulate the human condition, position it more meaningfully in the world, and assist in our collective homecoming. **Review With this book Thomas Barrie offers us neither a guide to how to build, nor a history of domestic architecture, nor a survey of significant houses, although a concern with all three informs his discussion of house and home. At issue is something more fundamental the need for both physical and spiritual shelter that is inseparable from human being the way houses and thoughts about houses, especially in literature, have articulated changing convictions concerning how human beings should take their place in the world, how they should relate to an encompassing reality, to others, and to themselves. Aware of the countless directions such articulations have taken, of the historical roots of our idealization of the suburban home, Barrie does not attempt to formulate some other ideal that would provide our building with a direction instead his study of house and home calls attention to timeless themes that responsible building must consider, such as the tension between the need to be placed and the demands of freedom, between the need for privacy and the need for community, the place of the dead in our lives, the bond that ties the domestic to the sacred. Thus he has given us a prolegomenon to responsible building. - Karsten Harries, Howard H. Newman Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, USA In this learned study, Thomas Barrie takes us beyond contemporary civilizations limited and individualistic assumptions of home and house as mere bastions of privacy, to reveal how the concepts respond to our human need for meaning for dwelling in place and with others. His meditations through diverse historical and topical examples are invaluable for anyone concerned with building and inhabiting a world resonant with humanitys existential questions. - Alberto Perez-Gomez, author and professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada About the Author Thomas Barrie, AIA is Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University, USA. His scholarship focuses on alternative histories of architecture and, in particular, the interrelationship of a cultures religious beliefs and socio-political agendas, and the communicative and ritual roles of the built environment. He is the author of The Sacred In-Between The Mediating Roles of Architecture (Routledge, 2010), and Spiritual Path, Sacred Place Myth Ritual and Meaning in Architecture (Shambhala, 1996), and co-editor of Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality (Barrie, Bermudez, and Tabb, Ashegate, 2015).