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Paolo Mereghetti
Orson Welles (USA, 1915-1985) was a complete auteur, a brilliant director and scriptwriter, a prodigious actor of memorable physique and a figure of legend. He began his directing career in…
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Mark Cousins
In this wide-ranging, stylish and iconoclastic book, the acclaimed Belfast filmmaker and BBC author Mark Cousins reflects on his prolific career in documentary-making, meditating on the philosophers, writers, actors and…
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Chris Wade
Writer, musician and filmmaker Chris Wade examines the directorial career of ORSON WELLES, the maverick pioneer of American cinema. Accompanied by pictures from Welles' life, Wade explores the two book…
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Martin Fitzgerald
A fat guy with a deep voice who drank a lot of sherry? An unreliable film-maker who always went over time and over budget? One of the most innovative storytellers…
Harry Lime
George Orson Welles, born on May 6th, 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, US was an actor, director, writer, and producer, who worked in theatre, radio, and movies, being remembered for his innovative…
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Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such gre
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This collection spotlights the iconic Orson Welles in nine of his works from the golden age of radio. These radio dramas, airing from 1938 through 1951, are among his very…
Orson Welles
Set in the seedy underworld of postwar Europe, this novel focuses on the sinister figure of Gregory Arkadin, a fabulously wealthy and influential financier who enlists the services of a…
Barbara Leaming
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Simon Braund
A lavish hardback containing Orson Welles’ Portfolio, much of which has never been seen before. Orson Welles, famous as an accomplished actor, writer, producer and visionary director, had originally aspired…
Peter 1939- Bogdanovich
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This delightful collection is a tribute to Welless talent, harkening back to his days in radio theater. Welless marvelous voice, moving in pitch and tone, is closer to music than…
Mac Boyle
1938 has been a bad year for Orson Welles. Radio executives are fed up. Theater audiences are bored. Hollywood won’t give him the time of day. Before it begins, his…
Alberto Anile
Depicts the artist’s life and work in Italy.
Brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915- 1985) was in the public eye. Originally published or broadcast between…
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Collects a film critic’s writings on Orson Welles - some thirty-five years of them - and makes a case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist…
Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
This 2004 book offers a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles’ life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker’s career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted in…
Frank Brady
Painstakingly researched, Brady delves into Welles’s creative achievements, from his critically acclaimed film Citizen Kane and his controversial radio broadcast The War of the Worlds (1938) to his pioneering stage…
Made as a prequel to the hit film The Third Man, this radio show was created to follow the adventures of the popular character Harry Lime, played here, and in…
Here are twelve episodes of the classic mystery radio show, The Black Museum.The Black Museum was a weekly radio crime drama produced for the BBC in 1951 and based on…
William Elliott Hazelgrove
On Halloween Eve 1938, Orson Welles put on a radio play of War of the Worlds and terrorized an uneasy American public on the brink of World War II, perpetuating…
James Naremore
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…
chris wade
The on screen career of Orson Welles is a vast and rather intimidating place, especially for the Welles newcomer or the casual fan. In this book, Chris Wade explores the…
Brett Wood
A detailed and annotated study of Welles’ career in the arts from early radio days to his final film work, with special attention to the widely various critical and public…
Robert Kaplow
Set in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of 17-year-old Richard Samuels, whose theatrical dreams are answered when Orson Welles, founder of the Mercury Theater, offers him a small…
Simon Callow
In this volume of his masterful, highly acclaimed biography, Callow captures the genius of Orson Welles, revealing a life even more extraordinary than the myths that have surrounded it.
David Thomson
Orson Welles, the prodigal genius of American cinema, finally gets the biography he deserves. David Thomson tells the story of the boy genius who became a legend with Citizen Kane…
The reason for the decline of Orson Welles’ career is a hotly debated issue. When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the audacious…
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A biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane .
This work charts the life of a man who stilled the world with his performance in Citizen Kane in 1941. Orson Welles seemed to possess inhuman energy and a phenomenal…
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Professor Peter J. Beck (Kingston University, UK)
First published in 1897, H.G. Wells’s alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced…
Peter Biskind
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…
Gary Graver
In Making Movies with Orson Welles, Gary Graver recounts the highs and lows of the moviemaking business as he and one of the most important and influential directors of all…
James Naremore (Chancellors' Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture, English and Comparative Literature, Indiana University)
Citizen Kane is the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. This volume represents the essential writings on Kane . It gives the reader a set…
Citizen Kane is arguable the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. This volume represents the writings on Kane, and gives the reader a set of…
Michael Anderegg
Anderegg considers Welles’s influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for twentieth-century American popular audiences, drawing on his knowledge of the abundant, lowbrow popularity of Shakespeare in nineteenth-century America. Welles’s three…
