Bibliography of Orson Welles

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This is a bibliography of books by or about the director and actor Orson Welles.

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Books by Orson Welles

The Citizen Kane Book (1971) Citizen-Kane-Book-FE.jpg
The Citizen Kane Book (1971)

Shakespeare studies

Scripts and screenplays

Plays

  • Welles, Orson. Miracle à Hollywood, et À Bon Entendeur . Paris: Gallimard, 1952. (two plays, [The Unthinking Lobster, and Fair Warning], only published in French)
  • Welles, Orson. Moby Dick—Rehearsed . London: Samuel French, Inc., 1965. ISBN   0-573-61242-0 (play).
  • France, Richard (ed.), Welles, Orson. Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. ISBN   9780313273346 (scripts of 1930s Welles abridgments of Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Five Kings)
  • Tarbox, Todd (ed.); Hill, Roger and Welles, Orson. Marching Song: A Play . Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. ISBN   978-1538125526 (first publication of an unperformed play, written in 1932)

Radio plays

  • Welles, Orson. His Honor—The Mayor. New York: The Free Company, 1941. (script of radio play broadcast April 6, 1941)

Screenplays

Novels and short stories

Interviews

Conversations

Artwork

Foreword

Books about Orson Welles

Biographies

Studies of Citizen Kane (1941)

Studies of other individual Welles films

Too Much Johnson (unfinished, 1938)

  • Studer, Massimiliano. Alle origini di Quarto potere. Too Much Johnson: il film perduto di Orson Welles. Milano: Mimesis editore, 2018. (about the unfinished film Too Much Johnson). In Italian language

It's All True (unfinished, 1942)

  • Benamou, Catherine L. It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. (about the unfinished film It's All True)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

  • Carringer, Robert. The Magnificent Ambersons: a Reconstruction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN   0-520-07857-8
  • Perkins, V. F. The Magnificent Ambersons. London: BFI, 1999.

The Stranger (1946)

  • Strobel, Ricarda. Propagandafilm und Melodrama: Untersuchungen zu Alfred Hitchcocks "Lifeboat" und Orson Welles' "The Stranger". Berlin: Eissenschaftler-verlag, 1984. (in German)

Othello (1952)

  • Del Ministro, Maurizio. Othello di Welles. Rome: Bulzoni, 2000. (about Othello)(in Italian)
  • Mac Liammóir, Micháel. Put Money in Thy Purse: The Making of Orson Welles's Othello. London: Methuen, 1952. (revised edition in 1978)

Don Quixote (unfinished, 1955-73)

  • Cobos, Juan, and Esteve Riambau. Don Quijote: páginas del guión cinematográfico de Orson Welles. Madrid: Asociación de Directores de Escena de España, 1992. (about the unfinished film Don Quixote)(in Spanish)
  • Sciortino, Sigismondo Domenico. Don Chisciotte e il Cinema (dell')Invisibile. Rome: La Camera Verde, 2013. (about the unfinished film Don Quixote)(in Italian)

Touch of Evil (1957)

  • Comito, Terry (ed.). Touch of Evil. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985. (screenplay with literary criticism)

The Trial (1962)

  • Trias, Jean-Phillipe. Le Procès d'Orson Welles. Paris: Cahiers du cinéma / CNDP, 2005. (about The Trial)(in French)

Chimes at Midnight (1965)

  • Gellert Lyons, Bridget (ed.) Welles, Orson. Chimes at Midnight. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988.
  • Riambau, Esteve. Las cosas que hemos visto: Welles y Falstaff. Luces de Gálibo, 2015. (in Spanish)

The Deep (unfinished, 1967-70)

  • Kovačić, Duško and Rafaelić Daniel. Orson Welles in Hvar(in Croatian)

F for Fake (1973)

  • Thieme, Claudia. F for Fake and the Growth in Complexity of Orson Welles' Documentary Form. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

The Other Side of the Wind (unfinished, 1970-6; posthumously completed, 2018)

  • Gosetti, Giorgio (ed.). The Other Side of the Wind. Locarno, Switzerland: Cahiers du cinéma/ Locarno Film Festival, 2005. ISBN   9782866424329
  • Karp, Josh. Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015. ISBN   9781250007087
  • Yates, Michael. Shoot 'Em Dead: Orson Welles & The Other Side of the Wind. Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu, 2020.
  • Studer, Massimiliano, Orson Welles e la New Hollywood, il caso di The Other Side of The Wind, Mimesis Edizioni, 2021. (in Italian)

Studies of multiple Welles films

Studies of Welles's theatre work

Studies of Welles's radio work

Memoirs prominently featuring Welles

Other

Written fiction featuring Welles as a character

Graphic novels

Novellas

Novels

Operas

Plays

References

  1. Kelly, Ray (March 31, 2016). "Simon Callow talks about 'Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band'". Wellesnet. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
  2. Lebo, Harlan. "Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
  3. Written in Spanish; the English translation of a portion of Gómez's autobiography was subsequently made available online on Gómez's company website in 2013
  4. Thomas, François (1998). "Orson Welles et le remodelage du texte shakespearien'". Actes des Congrès de la Société Française Shakespeare (16): 171–182. doi: 10.4000/shakespeare.290 . Retrieved 2007-09-19.