In addition to the previously announced revised What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride, Wellesians can also look forward in January to an expanded Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey from Harlan Lebo.
Angel City Press will publish Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey on January 18, 2022 as a 352-page paperback.
It is described by the publisher as an “updated and expanded softcover of Lebo’s 2016 hardcover that traces the creation of Orson’s Welles’s classic film. This film land history is itself a sinister tale of conspiracy, blackmail, and Communist witch hunts, while detailing the extraordinary rise of Welles, the legend who, at 23 years old, defied the studio system and became a Hollywood icon simply by making the greatest film of all time.”
Lebo is a senior fellow at the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg. He has written two books on Citizen Kane, as well as The Godfather Legacy and Casablanca – Behind the Scenes.
McBride’s revised book — essential reading on Welles’ later career — is due a week earlier in paperback from the University Press of Kentucky.
In updating What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? for its first-ever paperback edition, McBride has included significant developments of the past decade, chiefly the surprise discovery of the 1938 footage shot for the Mercury stage show Too Much Johnson and the completion of Welles’ last major work, The Other Side of the Wind. McBride co-starred in the latter and served an a consultant on the project.
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