Auteurism: Hollywood Studios as Auteurs? Comparison: MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Unibversal, Warner

Hollywood Studios: Comparative Study

Sarris Argument:

All studios had a blend of genres, absorbing quickly techncal advances, borrowed directors and stars, hits were copied, and flops avoided

Paramount was the most Europeanized of studios at a time when tastes were more Eurocentric.

It was more stylish than MGM in the 1920s.

Fox

Artistcally, more ambitious

MGM

Universal

Specialty genre: horror

Warner

Specialty genre: crime-gangster

Warner and Fix were technlogically trail-blazers