| Title | : | The Giant |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Youssef Daoudi |
| Release | : | 2025-05-06 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Comics & Graphic Novels, Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Entertainment, Film |
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| “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? |
