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ORSON WELLES ON THE RADIO

Heyer, Paul. The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Schwartz, A. Brad. Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News. New York: Hill and Wang, 2015.

Smith, Jacob. Vocal Tracks Performance and Sound Media. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Verma, Neil. “From Mercury to Mars.” Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, January 24, 2014.

Final post of six month series on the radio work of Orson Welles, individual parts of the series listed below.

Battles, Kathleen. ""Welles, Belles, and Fred Allen's Sonic Pranks: Making a Radio Auteur Laugh at Himself." Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, September 30, 2013. Link to blog post.

Cohen, Debra Rae. “Sound Bites: Vampire Media in Orson Welles’s Dracula.” Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, September 2, 2013. Link to blog post.

McEnaney, Tom. “Hello, Americans: Orson Welles, Latin America, and the Sounds of the “Good Neighbor.” Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, August 5, 2013. Link to blog post.

Meyers, Cynthia. “Why Teach War of the Worlds.” Antenna, September 17, 2013. Link to blog post.

Patterson, Eleanor. “War of the Worlds as Residual Radio.” Antenna, August 15, 2013. Link to blog post.

Schwartz, A. Brad. "The Shadow of the Great Detective: Orson Welles and Sherlock Holmes on the Air." Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, Janurary 9, 2014. Link to blog post.

Smith, Jacob. “Devil’s Symphony: Orson Welles’s ‘Hell on Ice’ as Eco-Sonic Critique.” Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog, December 2, 2013. Link to blog post.

VanCour, Shawn. “A Hard Act to Follow: War of the Worlds and the Challenges of Literary Adaptation.” Antenna, October 14, 2013. Link to blog post.

Wang, Jennifer Hyland. “After the Martians: The Invasion of “Daytime” in the War of the Worlds Controversy.” Antenna, January 20, 2014. Link to blog post.

Verma, Neil. Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama, 2012.

ORSON WELLES ON THE RADIO AND BEYOND

Callow, Simon. Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1997.

———. Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans. New York: Viking, 2006.

Rippy, Marguerite H. Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects a Postmodern Perspective. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Discovering Orson Welles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Sadlier, Darlene J. Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II. Joe R. And Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012.

Smith, Jacob. Vocal Tracks Performance and Sound Media. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Sadlier, Darlene J. Brazil Imagined 1500 to the Present. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.