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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Maltby, Richard

Paperback

Series: Routledge Hollywood Centenary

Business GeneralFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 14, 2027

ISBN10: 0815370091
ISBN13: 9780815370093
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 14 2027
Pages: 750
Weight: 0.99
Language: English

This is the first comprehensive scholarly history of the Warner Bros. studio and its related enterprises, from the opening of the family's first motion picture theatre in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1907 to the Paramount Skydance purchase in 2026.

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources and examining the studio's output from Peril of the Plains (1912) and Where the North Begins (1923) to Casablanca, Bonnie and Clyde, the Harry Potter franchise, the DC Extended Universe and Barbie (2023), the book explores the company's innovations in cinema technology and the industry's business structures from the introduction of sound to the creation of the first multimedia conglomerate in the 1970s. Warner Bros. was unique among the major Hollywood companies in being a family-owned and managed business and the book provides a chronological study of how the company's management from Harry Warner to Steve Ross shaped its production practices and business strategies. It also highlights the contributions of the studio's stars - Rin Tin Tin, John Barrymore, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Doris Day, Clint Eastwood - to its enduring image as the studio that came 'as close to real life as Hollywood ever gets'.

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