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Dear Screen-L:


The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:

It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey

Catherine L. Benamou is Associate Professor of American Culture, 
Latina/o Studies, and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of 
Michigan. She was Associate Producer and Senior Research Executive of 
_It'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.

http://go.ucpress.edu/Benamou

"This is an extremely rigorous, thorough piece of superior 
scholarship on one of the most important figures in the history of 
cinema.  Benamou introduces a wealth of material on the production 
process and the repercussions of this project in Latin America, which 
have been entirely missing from earlier, auteur-centered accounts; 
this alone makes it a book of great importance.  We can't ask for a 
more definitive, groundbreaking study than the one Benamou has given 
us."-Bill Nichols, author of _Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde_


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.


Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is 
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Benamou


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Lolita Guevarra
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University of California Press
Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127
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