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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 of It's All True available, 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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 416
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
14 March 2007
ISBN: 9780520938144
Format: eBook
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Introduction: Locating Orson Welles’s It’s All True
Chapter 1: In Production, 1941–1942
Chapter 2: Toward the Text of It’s 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 Film’s Suspension Examined
Chapter 7: The Legacy of a Phantom Film, 1945–2003
Conclusion: It’s All True, Orson Welles, and Hemispheric History
Appendix 1: Pages from a Research Scrapbook: Jacaré’s Family Remembers
Appendix 2: Fact Sheets for Filmed Episodes of It’s All True, 1941–1942
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Introduction: Locating Orson Welles’s It’s All True
Chapter 1: In Production, 1941–1942
Chapter 2: Toward the Text of It’s 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 Film’s Suspension Examined
Chapter 7: The Legacy of a Phantom Film, 1945–2003
Conclusion: It’s All True, Orson Welles, and Hemispheric History
Appendix 1: Pages from a Research Scrapbook: Jacaré’s Family Remembers
Appendix 2: Fact Sheets for Filmed Episodes of It’s All True, 1941–1942
Notes
Bibliography
Index