‘A Subversive Populist, A Celebrity Avant-Gardist’: Alex Ross On Orson Welles

“Welles causes endless trouble because of his unstable place in the American cultural hierarchy of high and low. He loved tragedy and vaudeville, Expressionist cinema and boys’ adventure stories. He converted genre vehicles like Touch of Evil into surreal labyrinths; he made Macbeth look like Gothic horror.”

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