The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies Audiobook (Free)

Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a city of moviemaking empires. The fantastic studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It had been the Golden Age of the films, and each studio room made its distinctive contribution. But how did the studios, “growing up” in once and place, develop therefore differently? What combos of talents and temperaments gave them their signature styles? They are the questions Ethan Mordden answers, with breezy erudition and irrepressible passion, in this fascinating and wonderfully readable reserve. Mordden illuminates the way the style of each studio room was mainly dictated by the character, philosophy, and behaviour of its presiding mogul-and how all these factors affected the task and careers of individual stars, directors, writers, and technicians, and the success from the studio room in general.

“Written using a flair and clarity that will delight also the casual film lover, this research is a relaxing and convincing alternative to the auteurist approach to film history.”-Web publishers Weekly