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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 The ways in which this artistic propaganda backfired make Juáreza significant historical document for students of film, Latin American history, and U.S. foreign relations.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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the cover of Juarez has a still from the movie in which three men, one in a black top hat, one in a sombero type hat and one in a cowboy hat confer over a paper.

December 2005

LC: 81-050821 PN
264 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
24 illus.

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