Acrobat Books, 1991. — 138 p. French critic André Bazin was 28 when Orson Welles's Citizen Kane opened in Paris. Four years later he wrote his first book with Welles as its subject; it would quickly achieve the status of a classic. Shortly before his death in 1958, Basin prepared this revised edition. Included are a brilliant introductory essay by François Traffaut and a...
University of California Press, 2007. — 400 p. Variously described as a work of genius, a pretentious wreck, a crucially important film, and a victim of its director's ego, among other things, It's All True , shot in Mexico and Brazil between 1941 and 1942, is the legendary movie that Orson Welles never got to finish. In this book, the most comprehensive and authoritative...
Facts on File, 2002. — 480 p. This is the third and final entry on a single director in Facts On File's Great Filmmakers series. Welles created what many consider the finest film of all time, Citizen Kane. Readers of the book's entry on it may be surprised to learn that it was his first feature film, made when he was only 26! He was also responsible for that "most notorious of...
Henry Holt and Co., 2013. — 336 p. Based on long-lost recordings between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom, My Lunches with Orson presents a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateur. There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom,...
Wallflower Press, 2016. — 304 p. The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities—from America's industrializing midland to its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fortresses to its Kafkaesque labyrinths and postwar rubblescapes. His movies take us through dark streets to confront nightmarish struggles for power, the carnivalesque and bizarre, and the shadows and...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 245 p. — ISBN 978-025-303-294-2 While reflecting recently on directions for further research on the life and work of Orson Welles, Joseph McBride encouraged the effort to fathom “the totality of Orson Welles” by fully taking into account what may seem to be minor moments in Welles’s career as a director (of theater and cinema), actor, writer,...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. — 272 p. Few twentieth-century artists are renowned in such a variety of media as Orson Welles. Well known for his work in film and theater as director, actor, and writer, Welles's influence in the field of radio has often been overlooked for the more glamorous entertainment of his movies. The Medium and the Magician is a comprehensive...
Chicago Review Press, 2005. — 416 p. Revealing the facts rather than the myths behind Orson Welles's Hollywood career, this groundbreaking history fills in the gaps behind the drama of one of the most well-known American filmmakers. Exploring why Welles's films, as released, never matched his youthful masterpiece Citizen Kane , this historical investigation delves into the...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. — 352 p. Journalist Josh Karp shines a spotlight on the making of The Other Side of the Wind ―the final unfinished film from the auteur of Citizen Kane in Orson Welles’s Last Movie , the basis of Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville’s Netflix Original Documentary, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead . In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive...
Viking, 1985. — 562 p. Genius, artist, monstre sacré, Orson Welles had one of the most brilliant and tempestuous careers in show business. Here he confides his most intimate feelings and recollections of his extraordinary life. In this biography, Barbara Leaming reveals the private Welles: from child prodigy and young lion in Dublin and New York, to the succès de scandale of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. - 344 pp. At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane , widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 304 p. Citizen Kane is arguably the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. No other film is quite so interesting from both artistic and political points of view. To study it even briefly is to learn a great deal about American history, motion-picture style, and the literary aspects of motion-picture scripts....
Centennial Anniversary Edition. — University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 352 p. Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third edition of this incomparable study, including a new section on the unfinished film The Other Side of the...
McFarland, 2006. — 276 p. Orson Welles, a self-conscious storyteller who often invited his audience to question the methods and veracity of what they see and hear. He was that rare magician who both pulled the wool over our eyes, for our delight, and unravelled the wool before our eyes, encouraging us to ponder the nature of the magic itself. Many of the characters in Welles's...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. — 248 p. 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...
University of California Press, 2007. — 346 p. Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles's career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has long believed that to dwell on this aspect of the Welles canon is to overlook the wealth of information available by...
Hill and Wang, 2016. — 368 p. On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading...
McFarland, 2007. — 216 p. With a career spanning almost five decades, Orson Welles became--and in many ways still is--one of entertainment's biggest names. His temperamental vitality, his humor and his general theatricality contributed volumes to the American stage and movie screen. His concepts of lighting and staging brought a new era to American productions. Welles...
HarperCollins, 1992. — 533 p. The book comprises conversations between the two filmmakers Orson Welles (1915–1985) and Peter Bogdanovich recorded over several years, beginning in 1969. The wide-ranging volume encompasses Welles's life and his own stage, radio, and film work as well as his insights on the work of others. The interview book was transcribed by Bogdanovich after...
М.: Искусство, 1975. — 271 с., 32 л. ил. — (Мастера зарубежного киноискусства). Орсон Уэллс — актер и режиссер, журналист и писатель, художник и общественный деятель — давно уже стал «человеком-легендой». В сборнике представлены наиболее интересные статьи об Уэллсе, появлявшиеся в печати за последние десятилетия, а также исследования советских киноведов. Большой раздел сборника...
Перевод с английского и французского. — М.: Радуга, 1990. — 448 с. — ISBN: 5-05-002579-6. Орсон Уэллс (1915—1985) — знаменитый американский кинорежиссер. Его фильм «Гражданин Кейн», сценарий которого включен в настоящий сборник, вошел в классику мирового кинематографа. Не менее известны шекспировские экранизации Уэллса «Отелло» и «Макбет», о создании которых, как и о других его...
Перевод с английского и французского. — М.: Радуга, 1990. — 448 с. — ISBN: 5-05-002579-6. Орсон Уэллс (1915—1985) — знаменитый американский кинорежиссер. Его фильм «Гражданин Кейн», сценарий которого включен в настоящий сборник, вошел в классику мирового кинематографа. Не менее известны шекспировские экранизации Уэллса «Отелло» и «Макбет», о создании которых, как и о других его...
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