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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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by Neal Gabler
Sales Rank: 68202
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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor August 8, 1989
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385265573
ISBN-13: 978-0385265577
Product Dimensions:
8 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Product Review
That subtitle may inspire in some readers waves of ethnic pride, and in others waves of ethnic revulsion, but the point of this book is that its claim of origin is quite literally true. And what makes it an interesting read for political types is the way it demonstrates that no matter how much the founding Hollywood moguls and their successors tried to peddle an idealized, escapist form of entertainment, bubbling up under and around their every project was ideology, racism, ethnic prejudice, class friction, domestic and international politics and all the other raw, seething stuff that distinguishes this country from all others. In Gabler's hands, the Industry draws a picture of American political history in spite of itself.
From Publishers Weekly
The author presents "an entertaining, wide-ranging, in-depth account" of the Jewish studio executives, theater owners, producers, writers, lawyers and talent agents who dominated the American film industry until shortly after WW II. "Gabler vividly recreates a way of life now gone forever," commented PW. Photos.
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