Böcker i Wisconsin/Warner Brothers Screenplays-serien

Talks about Bette Davis's role of a dying heroine.

Presents the study of a woman's struggle for independence in which Bette Davis gave a skillful performance. Seen at first as a ""women's film"" it has won renewed interest as a remarkable work.

The story of the making of ""To Have and Have Not"" is an exciting one, ranging from the reported romance between its stars, to some of the more subtle aspects of the wartime alliance between the United States and the Batista regime in Cuba. This introduction leads us to an appreciation of one of Hollywood's most memorable films.

Presents the powerful women's noir film in which Joan Crawford forged a new and successful screen image, winning her an Academy Award for best actress.

Talks about Errol Flynn's performance.

Talks about ""42nd Street"", a smash musical hit that resuscitated the Hollywood musical during the Depression.

Presents a showcase of Busby Berkeley's musical production talent.

Talks about a 1940 swashbuckler, an example of the Hollywood studio system at work.

Talks about a Hollywood classic directed by Howard Hawks.

Talks about ""The Jazz Singer"", the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part of the dramatic action. This film deals with the conflicts confronting the first-generation Jew in America.

An attempt to answer the major question of the 1930s: would democracy or dictatorship prevail? This book talks about The Warner Bros studio's eagerness to get behind the foreign policy objectives of FDR.

Talks about a 1942 smash musical hit, a favorite among audiences and film buffs.

A gangster classic where Mae Clarke's nose is used as a grapefruit grinder.

Considered by many as the archetype of the genre, this book states that this gangster film dramatized the discontent and alienation, anxiety and hostility of the dark years of the Depression.

A notorious classic among cold-war propaganda films produced in the United States.

Talks about a 1941 Warner Bros gangster film that launched Humphrey Bogart to stardom. Critics praise ""High Sierra"" not for its classic Hollywood style, but for its influences on later artists, and the way it reflected changes in American society of 1941.

Talks about a 1936 classic, fashioned from the Broadway play, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Profoundly different from the play, it has a place in the social history of America and of black America.

Lost for many years, a single surviving print of this classic horror film surfaced in the 1970s and was hailed as a legendary horror classic. The film is a potent mix of fantasy and reality.