Juarez (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299087441 ISBN 13: 9780299087449

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983

Synopsis

Juárez was Warner Brothers' cinematic attempt to answer the major international question of the 1930s: would democracy or dictatorship prevail? Eager to further the foreign policy objectives of its friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt and equally willing to add to its prestigious and profitable biography series, the stuido set a record high budget and assembled special film stock, extensive scholarly research, a loose time schedule, a renowned director, and a stellar cast that included Paul Muni, Brian Aherne, and Bette Davis. The film was meant to be an ideologically clear-cut statement against fascism. The ways in which this artistic propaganda backfired make Juárez a significant historical document for students of film, Latin American history, and U.S. foreign relations.

About this title

About the Authors

Paul J. Vanderwood is Professor of History at San Diego State University, He is the author of other books, including Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake and Disorder Equals progress: Bandits, Police and Mexican Development.

Tino Balio is professor emeritus of film in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and former director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. He is author of United Artists, Volume 1, 1919–1950 and Volume 2, 1951–1978 as well as Grand Design: Hollywood as Modern Business Enterprise, 1930–1939. He is editor of The American Film Industry and Hollywood in the Age of Television.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299087441
• ISBN 13: 9780299087449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Vanderwood Paul J., Balio Tino