"Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective" traces the impact of legendary director Orson Welles on contemporary mass media entertainment and suggests that, ironically, we can see Welles s performance genealogy most clearly in his unfinished RKO projects.Author Marguerite H. Rippy provides the first in-depth examination of early film and radio projects shelved by RKO or by Welles himself. While previous studies of Welles largely fall into the categories of biography or modernist film studies, this book extends the understanding of Welles via postmodern narrative...