Yale University Press
Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
Key Metrics
- David Thomson
- Yale University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780300197600
- 8.5 X 6.2 X 0.8 inches
- 0.9 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Entertainment & Performing Arts
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers--Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack--arrived in America as unschooled Jewish immigrants, yet they founded a studio that became the smartest, toughest, and most radical in all of Hollywood.
David Thomson provides fascinating and original interpretations of Warner Brothers pictures from the pioneering talkie The Jazz Singer through black-and-white musicals, gangster movies, and such dramatic romances as Casablanca, East of Eden, and Bonnie and Clyde. He recounts the storied exploits of the studio's larger-than-life stars, among them Al Jolson, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, Doris Day, and Bugs Bunny. The Warner brothers' cultural impact was so profound, Thomson writes, that their studio became one of the enterprises that helped us see there might be an American dream out there.
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