Juárez
Edited, with an Introduction by Paul J. Vanderwood
Tino Balio, Series Editor
Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay
series
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propaganda backfired make Juáreza significant historical document for students
of film, Latin American history, and U.S. foreign relations.
Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay
series
Tino Balio, series editor
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, 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 Industryas 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.
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December 2005
LC: 81-050821 PN
264 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
24 illus.
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