Warner Bros by David Thomson
The Making of an American Movie Studio
A lively, opinionated history of one of Hollywood’s great studios that follows its rise from a small, immigrant-run enterprise to a dominant force in American cinema, highlighting its technological boldness (notably the embrace of sound), its taste for gritty, urban dramas and musicals, the shaping personalities of executive bosses and contract stars, and the moral and commercial compromises that marked its middle and later years; the narrative combines film criticism, biography and cultural analysis to show how the studio both reflected and helped shape American tastes, politics and the film industry’s changing corporate realities.
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- 2002
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- British
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- Original Language
- English
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