{"product_id":"0025192233272","title":"Touch Of Evil","description":"\"Considered by many critics to be one of Welles's great works, the film gets a superb review in this first-rate anthology. . . . Recommended.\" --Film Study\u003cbr\u003e \"This is a welcome addition to the growing collection of scripts of film classics, one to put on the shelf next to Welles's Citizen Kane. . . . Recommended.\" --Choice Welles is by consensus one of the most talented film directors who ever worked in Hollywood, and this flamboyant film--a 1958 exploration of the thriller form--is one of his greatest achievements.\u003cbr\u003e Comito's introduction considers the film's relation to the tradition of film noir and demonstrates how Welles's mastery of cinematic language transforms the materials of a routine thriller into a work that is at once a sardonic examination of the dark side of sexuality, and elegiac rumination on the loss of innocence, and a disquieting assault on the viewer's own moral and aesthetic certainties.\u003cbr\u003e Other contextual materials in the book include a biographical sketch of Welles; an important interview with Welles by Andre Bazin, Charles Bitsch, and Jean Domarchi, available here for the first time in English; an interview with Charlton Heston on the making of the film; representative reviews; critical essays by William Johnson, Jean Collet (translated especially for this book), and Stephen Heath; an analysis of the relation of the complete film to Welles's recently discovered shooting script; and a filmography and bibliography. The continuity script collates the two available versions of Touch of Evil and provides an invaluable, shot-by-shot guide through the visual and audio complexities of Welles's masterpiece.","brand":"UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENT.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084862177520,"sku":"0025192233272","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0025192233272_p0.jpg?v=1763784612","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0025192233272","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}