Studies of Orson's Films

[Clooburg2]

Has anyone checked out any of the following? (taken from wiki bibliography page)

Studies of Citizen Kane (1941)
* Berthomé, Jean-Pierre and Thomas, François. Citizen Kane. Paris: Flammarion, 1992. (in French)
* Carringer, Robert. The Making of Citizen Kane. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
* Gottesman, Ronald (ed.). Focus on Citizen Kane. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
* ______________________. Perspectives on Citizen Kane. New York: G.K. Hall/Macmillan, 1996.
* Joxe, Sandra, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles. Paris : Hatier, 1990. (in French)
* Kael, Pauline (ed.). The Citizen Kane Book. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1971.
* Lebo, Harlan. Citizen Kane: The Fiftieth Anniversary Album. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
* ____________. Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey. New York: WGI Publishing, 2000.
* ____________. Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. ISBN 9781250077530[3]
* Merryman, Richard. Mank. The Wit, World and Life of Herman Mankiewicz. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1978.
* Mulvey, Laura. Citizen Kane. London: BFI, 1992.
* Naremore, James (ed.). Orson Welles's Citizen Kane: a Casebook. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-515892-2
* Pizzitola, Louis. Hearst over Hollywood: Power, passion and propaganda in the movies. Columbia University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0231116466
* Roy, Jean. Citizen Kane [de] Orson Welles: étude critique. Paris: Nathan, 1989. (in French)
* Walsh, John Evangelist. Walking Shadows: Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst and Citizen Kane. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
Studies of other individual Welles filmsToo 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
* Rosenbaum, Jonathan (trans.), Bazin, André. Orson Welles. Harper and Row, 1978.
* Bogdanovich, Peter. The Cinema of Orson Welles. New York: Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
* Cowie, Peter. The Cinema of Orson Welles. Da Capo Press, 1973.
* Drössler, Stefan, (ed.). The Unknown Orson Welles. Munich: Filmmuseum München/belleville Verlag, 2004. (about Welles's unfinished films; text in three languages) (in English, French, and German)
* Garis, Robert. The Films of Orson Welles. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
* Gear, Matthew Asprey. At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City. Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2016.
* Gottesman, Ronald (ed.). Focus on Orson Welles. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
* Hel-Guedj, Johan-Frederik. Orson Welles, la règle du faux. Michalon, 1997. (in French)
* Higham, Charles. The Films of Orson Welles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
* Howard, James. The Complete Films of Orson Welles. Citadel Press, 1991.
* McBride, Joseph. Orson Welles. Da Capo Press, 1996. (heavily revised edition of a 1972 monograph)
* _______________. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career. Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
* Nagel, Elsa. L'Art du Mensonge et de la Vérité: Orson Welles, Le Procès et Une Histoire Immortelle. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997. (about The Trial, The Immortal Story and F for Fake) (in French)
* Naremore, James. The Magic World of Orson Welles. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-252-03977-5 (centennial anniversary edition, first published by Oxford University Press in 1978, revised edition published by Southern Methodist University Press in 1989)
* Rasmussen, Randy. Orson Welles: Six Films, Scene by Scene, New York: McFarland, 2006
* Rippy, Marguerite. Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective. Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8093-2912-3
Studies of Welles's theatre work
* Anderegg, Michael. Orson Welles, Shakespeare and Popular Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
* France, Richard. The Theatre of Orson Welles. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-8387-1972-4
Studies of Welles's radio work
* Cantril, Hadley. The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. OCLC 171781
* Gallop, Alan. The Martians are Coming! The true story of Orson Welles' 1938 panic broadcast. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1445602233
* Gosling, John. Waging the War of the Worlds: A history of the 1938 radio broadcast and resulting panic. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2009 (including the original script by Howard Koch) ISBN 978-0786441051
* Heyer, Paul. The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years. Ottawa: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 0-7425-3797-8
* Koch, Howard. The Panic Broadcast: The whole story of Orson Welles ' legendary radio show invasion from Mars. New York: Avon, 1970.
* Schwartz, A. Brad. Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News. New York: Hill & Wang, 2015. ISBN 0809031612

If anyone recommends any of these, or has others not listed, I'd be curious... I still haven't finished my Welles marathon, Mr. Arkadin is next, but i'm planning to do an indepth video series talking about all of them, man deserves some respect amongst my generation

[JMcBride]

I also wrote a second book on Welles (of three), the only one to
date entirely devoted to his acting, ORSON WELLES:
ACTOR AND DIRECTOR, 1977, Pyramid Books, Harcourt
Brace Jovanich, NY. It was also published in
Italian and German translations. Out of print but
copies can be found online.

I highly recommend Michael Anderegg's book
ORSON WELLES, SHAKESPEARE, AND
POPULAR CULTURE, which is wide-ranging and especially
acute on Welles as an actor and public figure. Among other
things, it helped me understand what he is actually
doing in and with THE STRANGER.

[cinescot]

I believe this is only one section of Welles' Bibliography page on Wikipedia.

Joe, your 1977 book is in the bibliography but is listed in the 'Biographies' section, which isn't shown here.

For what it is worth, these are some of my own recommendations from the ones that I have read.

This Is Orson Welles - Peter Bogdanovich & Orson Welles
My first Orson Welles book and the one I have re-read the most. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in Welles.

Orson Welles at Work - Jean-Pierre Berthomé and François Thomas
Looks at Welles working process from his early films through to later and unfinished works. Well researched and with lots of information. Published as a large hardback with a lot of excellent photos as well.

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career - Joseph McBride
The book that (in my opinion) best challenges the myth of Welles so-called "artistic decline". An excellent read.

Discovering Orson Welles - Jonathan Rosenbaum
A collection of essays that the author has written over the years. The majority are available to read on Jonathan's website: https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/

[tonyw]

I very much affirm that as well as Joe's inclusion of Michael Anderegg's fascinating study.