| Titre | Touch of Evil: la frontera imaginaria de Orson Welles | |
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| Auteur | Luis Felipe López Pérez, Miguel Ángel Lozano Chairez, Axel Eduardo Núñez Morales | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | no 23, 2021 Imaginaires de la limite | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier: Imaginaires de la Limite Limites, cinéma et fictions audivisuelles |
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| Résumé anglais |
The film Touch of Evil (1958) by Orson Welles is considered the last great film noir, and inspirer of the French new wave. The plot deals with a crime on the U. S./Mexico border. In this article, we analyze the film to find elements on which Welles relied to represent this geographical location. Although the film is set in a fictional town called Los Robles, we assume that this representation is based on real border elements. To demonstrate it, we rely to intertextual analysis based on four main sources: the restoration of the film, produced by Universal Pictures in 1998; the original script written by Welles; the novel published by Whit Masterson in 1956 that inspired the film; and a memo addressed to the studio written by the director in 1958. We contrast these sources with historical maps and archive material that helped us understand the mise-en-scène of this production. Our analysis reveals that Welles mixed multiple elements to build an imaginary border and achieve his cinematographic goals. These findings complement previous research on the film, as the border geography on which it's inspired had so far not been addressed. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://journals.openedition.org/amerika/14459 |
