Warner Bros : The Making of an American Movie Studio / David Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, David, 1941- author.

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

Series:

Jewish lives

Jewish Lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion picture studios.

History.

United States.

California--Los Angeles.

Motion picture studios--California--Los Angeles--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : 5 b-w illustrations.

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

Summary:

Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner 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."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. An Introduction: Families and Stories

2. The Greatest Moment?

3. What Are Brothers For?

4. Family Dinner

5. Mustache

6. For Liberty?

7. Rinty

8. Mama, Darlin'

9. Now

10. My Forgotten Man

11. Be Somebody

12. Bette v. Everyone

13. Contracts and Company

14. Unafraid?

15. Bogart

16. After the War, Before the End

17. Jacob's Ladder

Notes

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780300231335

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.