| An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood |  | Author: Neal Gabler
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 56,914
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Edition
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 1.1 x 8
ISBN: 0385265573
EAN: 9780385265577
ASIN: 0385265573
Publication Date: September 8, 1989
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Product Description
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.
Amazon.com 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.
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