
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
- 01How do changes in city, automobile, and family position make a recallable past useless for action?
- 02Which 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
- 01Cinema 2: The Time-Image
Authoritative source for the standard translation, translators, ISBN, and publication date.
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Viewing gateways and editions
- Verified complete Bilibili carrier: 伟大的安巴逊 (1942)bilibili.comOpen film page ↗
- Page access
- Accessible when checked
- Version extent
- Cut or altered
- Source type
- User-uploaded page
Edition note: The surviving 88-minute theatrical release, in one part; Welles's original cut remained unfinished.
Link checked: 2026-08-13