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Informationen zum Autor Catherine L. Benamou is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California! Irvine. 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. Klappentext "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 Zusammenfassung "It's All True" is shot in Mexico and Brazil between 1941 and 1942, and is the legendary movie that Orson Welles never got to finish. This book synthesizes source material gathered on two continents, including interviews with key participants, to present an assessment of the film and its historical significance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
