February 26
Chimes at Midnight: Shakespearean Adaptations and the Late Career of Orson Welles
Erica Moulton, assistant professor, Literature, Writing, and Film
The directing career of Orson Welles has often been framed in terms of his monumental early success with Citizen Kane (1941) and his perceived failure to live up to his debut film for the rest of his career in Hollywood. Welles' self-imposed exile from Hollywood in 1948 ushered in a new period of his career directing low budget, independently financed films in Europe, notably two adaptations of Shakespeare plays, Othello (1951) and Chimes at Midnight (1965). This talk will explore the histories of these two productions and what they reveal about the complicated legacy of Orson Welles as a filmmaker and adapter of Shakespeare's texts.
Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public. Registration is not required. Masks may be required in common areas at Fairhaven Senior Services. Please be prepared on arrival. Lectures will be recorded and posted to our website and YouTube channel. Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.
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