Its All True Orson Welless Pan-American Odyssey [Paperback]

Variously described as a work of genius, a pretentious wreck, a crucially important film, and a victim of its director's ego, among other things,It's All True,shot in Mexico and Brazil between 1941 and 1942, is the legendary movie that Orson Welles never got to finish. In this book, the most comprehensive and authoritative assessment ofIt's All Trueavailable, Catherine Benamou synthesizes a wealth of new and little-known source material gathered on two continents, including interviews with key participants, to present a compelling original view of the film and its historical significance. Her book challenges much received wisdom about Orson Welles and illuminates the unique place he occupies in American culture, broadly defined.

Catherine L. Benamouis Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She was Associate Producer and Senior Research Executive ofIt's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles(Paramount Pictures 1993), and is lead consultant on the It's All True Film Preservation Project currently underway at the UCLA FIlm and Television Archive in Hollywood.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Authors Note
Introduction: Locating Orson Welless Its All True

Chapter 1: In Production, 19411942
Chapter 2: Toward the Text of Its All True, Based on the Work in Progress
Chapter 3: Postproduction: The Trajectory of the Film Object, and That of Critical Discourse
Chapter 4: Almofala: A Wellesian Text
Chapter 5: Labirinto: The Politics and Poetics of a Text-in-the-Making
Chapter 6: Zoom, Pan, and Rack Focus: The Films Suspension Examined
Chapter 7: The Legacy of a Phantom Film, 19452003
Conclusion: Its All True, Orson Welles, and Hemispheric History

Appendix 1: Pages from a Research Scrapbook: Jacar?s Family Remembers
Appendix 2: Fact Sheets for Filmed Episodes of Its All True,lc"