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.

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About the Author

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, Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the author of United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, and the editor of The American Film Industry as well as the 22 volume Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay series, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He directed the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research from 1966 to 1882.

About this edition

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