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

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION: LOCATING ORSON WELLES'S IT'S ALL TRUE 1 1. In Production, 1941-1942 23 2. Toward the Text of It's All True, Based on the Work in Progress 61 3. Postproduction: The Trajectory of the Film Object, and That of Critical Discourse 130 4. Almofala: A Wellesian Text 156 5. Labirinto: The Politics and Poetics of a Text-in-the-Making 194 6. Zoom, Pan, and Rack Focus: The Film's Suspension Examined 227 7. The Legacy of a Phantom Film, 1945-2003 276 CONCLUSION: IT'S ALL TRUE, ORSON WELLES, AND HEMISPHERIC HISTORY 297 APPENDIX 1: PAGES FROM A RESEARCH SCRAPBOOK: JACARE'S FAMILY REMEMBERS 305 APPENDIX 2: FACT SHEETS FOR FILMED EPISODES OF IT'S ALL TRUE, 1941-1942 310 NOTES 319 BIBLIOGRAPHY 363 INDEX 381