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Carregando... Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio (Jewish Lives)de David Thomson
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Thomson’s book is part of Yale’s excellent Jewish Lives series. The Warner brother’s studio has given us many wonderful films to enjoy including one of my favorites – CASABLANCA which was rushed into production to make the most of the war effort at the time. Warner Brothers was a studio run by a family of Jewish emigres, headed by Jack Warner. Thomson describes Jack as “not just a clown, a singer and a show-off, but a modern showman who was going to end up telling the family story and smiling at America”. Under his stewardship, the studio gave the country gangsters in great suits, dames, gunfire, wisecracks, and above all, a tone – “wry, fond of sentiment yet hard-boiled, as if to say we’re Americans, we can take it and dish it out”. Three of the four brothers were born in a small village north of Warsaw, when Poland was part of the Russian empire. Their father was a shoemaker. He took his family from there to Hamburg, to Liverpool, to Ontario (where Jack was born) and then finally resting in Baltimore, MD. For those wanting a more thorough understanding of the Warners’ complex relationship with their Jewish heritage, Neal Gabler’s “An Empire of Their Own” is a more impressive achievement. (you can find that one in our library as well). However, this new book charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. These four brothers arrived in America as unschooled Jewish immigrants and founded a studio that became the smartest, toughest, and most radical in all of Hollywood. It is a very worthy addition to the Jewish Lives series. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy 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." Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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