I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299087549 ISBN 13: 9780299087548

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981

Synopsis

    Since its release in 1932, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang had earned a reputation as one of the few Hollywood products that can be associated directly with social change. Film historians attribute the reform of the southern chain gang system to the public outrage generated by this movie, which depicts a true story.
    In addition to being an important social document, the film remains a gripping experience for filmgoers today because of its unusual dramatic conception, its hauntingly inconclusive ending, and Paul Muni's performance as the good boy forced to go wrong.

This book includes the complete screenplay.

About this title

About the Authors

John E. O'Connor is Associate Professor of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books.

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: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299087549
• ISBN 13: 9780299087548
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: O'Connor John E., Balio Tino