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Orson Welles / 奥逊·威尔斯 · 1942

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

Sheets of past remain recallable, but a present transformed by city and automobile makes recollection-images useless for action. Family history can no longer re-enter the present.

Film details

Original title
The Magnificent Ambersons
Director
Orson Welles / 奥逊·威尔斯
Year
1942
Region
United States
Reading attribution: Atlas editorial synthesis · Sources and locators

Close-reading questions

  1. 01
    How do changes in city, automobile, and family position make a recallable past useless for action?
  2. 02
    Which recollection-images remain clear yet can no longer re-enter the transformed present?

Analysis and scene sources

Shots and scenes

Primary texts, scholarship, and locators

Theory coordinate: Cinema 2, Minnesota 1989, ch. 5, pp. 109–12

  1. 01
    Cinema 2: The Time-Image

    Authoritative source for the standard translation, translators, ISBN, and publication date.

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Viewing gateways and editions

  1. Verified complete Bilibili carrier: 伟大的安巴逊 (1942)bilibili.comOpen film page ↗
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    Version extent
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    Edition note: The surviving 88-minute theatrical release, in one part; Welles's original cut remained unfinished.

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