Clásicos y modernos: dos adaptaciones literarias de Orson Welles

The main purpose of this paper is to study the importance of Orson Welles as filmmaker in two different ways. Firstly, as regards his adaptations from Shakespeare’s texts. Among these Macbeth, focusing mainly on Jacques Tourner’s influence with his work I walked with a Zombie and the strategies used to build a film using fantastic terror clues. In the second part of the paper, Welles is studied in relation to his interest in Isak Dinesen’s work and his adaptation from The Inmortal Story.Se estudia la trayectoria cinematográfica de Orson Welles con especial referencia a las adaptaciones de las obras de Shakespeare y dentro de ellas Macbeth, destacando la influencia de Jacques Tourner con su obra Yo anduve con un Zombie y construyendo su obra con los parámetros del cine de terror fantástico. Se describe el interés de Wells por la obra de Isak Dinesen y su adaptación de Una historia inmortal