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 -- Lolita Guevarra Electronic Marketing Coordinator University of California Press Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127 [log in to unmask] ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org