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The Green Pastures Edited, with an Introduction by Thomas Cripps Tino Balio, Series Editor Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series The Green Pastures, a 1936 black folk-classic film, has long captured the attentions of audiences both black and white. It is a picture to be appreciated not merely for its entertainment value or cinematic techniques but also for its place in the history of American social change. We are now offered the best guide to our understanding of both, with Thomas Cripps's substantial introduction and learned annotations of the script, along with the accompanying shooting script itself, never before published. Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series Tino Balio, series editor Thomas Cripps is Professor of History and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Popular Culture at Morgan State University. 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. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

December 2005 LC: 79-003959 PN 228 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 20 illus. Paper $24.95 x ISBN 978-0-299-07924-6 ADD TO CART

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