Hollywood Studios: A Comparative Study
The noted critic Andrew Sarris argued:
All studios had a blend of genres, absorbing quickly technical 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 ans 1930s
Fox
Artistcally, more ambitious
MGM
Universal
Specialty genre: horror
Warner
Specialty genre: crime-gangster
Warner and Fox were technlogically trail-blazers.





