The Public Enemy

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Edited by Henry Cohen

Type

Screenplays

Subject

One Film > The Public Enemy

Keywords

William A. Wellman, movie script

Publishing date

1981

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Collection

Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplays

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 192 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (14 x 21 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-299-08464-7
978-0-299-08464-6

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Book Presentation:
The Public Enemy, a 1931 Warner Brothers gangster classic, is easily remembered as the movie in which James Cagney used Mae Clarke's nose as a grapefruit grinder. As Cagney recalls, it was just about the first time that "a woman had been treated like a broad on the screen, instead of like a delicate flower."

The ambivalence toward women is just one of the many stylistic contradictions that make The Public Enemy worth studying, not only for its intrinsic merits but also as a creative expression bending under the constraints of censorship.

Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series
Tino Balio, series editor

Henry Cohen is the author of two other books and is the founder and editor of Criminal Justice History. 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.

See the publisher website: University of Wisconsin Press

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