Cross-listed with CINE359Y. Credit granted for ENGL329O or CINE359Y. Prerequisite: ENGL245, FILM245, CINE245, SLLC283, or FILM283: or permission of instructor.

Actor, director, radio innovator, theater maverick, magician, talk-show guest, ad-pitchman, and unlikely social media icon, Orson Welles has been an icon across mediums for nearly a century. Using the heights and depths of Welles' career as our lens - from Citizen Kane to cantankerous commercial outtakes - this course will trace larger histories of 20th and 21st century media, criticism and theory.