It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey
"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 ofMaya Deren and the American Avant-Garde