The Warner Brothers

ISBN-13: 9780813198019

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Publication Date: 09-05-2023

Pages: 360

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

Series: Screen Classics

Chris Yogerst is the author of Hollywood Hates Hitler! Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures and From the Headlines to Hollywood: The Birth and Boom of Warner Bros. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Journal of American Culture, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, and the Hollywood Reporter. He currently serves as an associate professor of communication in the Department of Arts and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Put Up or Shut Up
1. Manifest Destiny: Origins to 1923
2. Incorporation, Innovation, Triumph, and Tragedy: 1923 - 1929
3. Battling Depression, Censors, and Stars: 1930-1936
4. Fighting Fascism, America Firsters, and the US Senate: 1937-1941
5. The War Years: 1942-1945
6. Postwar Politics, HUAC, and the Blacklist: 1946-1947
7. Last Gasp of Old Hollywood: 1948-1955
8. End of the Studio, End of the Family: 1956-1959
9. A New Hollywood Rises: 1960-1978
10. Coda: As Time Goes By

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