The French publishing house Editions Mimesis has released Apres Welles: Imitations et influences ( After Welles: Imitations and influences ) – a collection of essays in Fench on the impact Orson Welles has had on cinema.
Apres Welles was edited and compiled by Jean-Philippe Trias of the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier
According to the publisher, “Several generations of directors (Bogdanovich, Coppola, Scorsese, Edwards, Gilliam, Ruiz, Van Sant, Ossang…) inherit his influence in various ways. But the shadow cast by Welles extends from B films of the 1950s to very contemporary production, avant-garde or essay films between documentary and fiction to the pastiche of André S. Labarthe or to the beautiful tribute of Tim Burton in Ed Wood . “
The book’s 13 essays include:
Imitations and influences: Welles continued, by Jean-Philippe Trias
A shared heterodox style: archeology of the affiliation between Hollywood B production and Welles’ films, by Mathias Kusnierz
In the mirror of the cinema: Wellesian posterities in two Hollywood metafilms, by Julien Achemchame
After Citizen Kane: return and survival of the biography with flashbacks, by Caroline San Martin
Peter Bogdanovich and Orson Welles: “Cinema and friendship … here is the mystery”, by Céline Saturnino
Wellesian rewritings in the works of Coppola and Scorsese, by Massimo Olivero
My Own Private Idaho, palimpseste wellesien, by Loig Le Bihan
FJ Ossang: “If the audacity of Welles has touched you, you will make films!” », By Vincent Deville
The avatars of Don Quixote: composing with snatches, by François Amy de la Bretèque
Truths and Lies at the Source of the Contemporary Essay, by Ángel Quintana
The ashes of Welles: The man who saw the man who saw the bear by André S. Labarthe, by Céline Gailleurd
Welles “in complete freedom”, interview, by André S. Labarthe
The dreams of Ed Wood, the lesson of Orson Welles, by François Thomas
The book’s editor, Jean-Philippe Trias, was the founder and director of Cinergon from 1995 to 2010. He published Le Procès d’Orson Welles (2005), directed Henri-François Imbert, le dialogue des images (2015), and co- directed Cinema and audiovisual reflect themselves. Reflexivity, migrations, intermediality (2012), John Cassavetes. Imaginaries of bodies, between stage and screen (2021), and Memory of places and cinematographic writing of history (2021).
Further information on Après Welles may be found at editionsmimesis.fr/catalogue/apres-welles
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