Joseph McBride

Joseph McBride's books include Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, Orson Welles, and Hawks on Hawks. His biography Searching for John Ford will be published in December. He writes a regular column on film for Irish America magazine. (July 1999)

From the Review

July 15, 1999: The Joys of Necrophilia

Gods and Monsters a film written and directed by Bill Condon. Condon's screenplay appears in Scenario: The Magazine of Screenwriting Art, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998-1999).

Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters by James Curtis

Bride of Frankenstein by Alberto Manguel. (distributed in the US by Indiana University Press)

Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-1998 by David Ehrenstein

May 13, 1993: The Lost Kingdom of Orson Welles

This Is Orson Welles by Orson Welles, by Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum

This Is Orson Welles (audio tapes) conversations between Welles and Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum

The Cradle Will Rock a screenplay by Orson Welles, edited by James Pepper

The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction by Robert L. Carringer