Name: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
ISBN: 9780385265577

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

Neal Gabler

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: Aug 8th, 1989
Pages: 512
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.38in - 1.20in - 0.94lb
EAN: 9780385265577
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About the Author

Neal Gabler is the author of five books: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, and, most recently, Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity and Power for the Yale Jewish Lives series. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Playboy, Newsweek, and Vogue, and he has been the recipient of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Time magazine's nonfiction book of the year, USA Today's biography of the year, a National Book Critics Circle nomination, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Public Policy Scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Patrick Henry Fellowship at Washington College's C.V. Starr Center. He has also served as the chief nonfiction judge of the National Book Awards. Gabler is currently a professor for the MFA program at Stonybrook Southampton.

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@educatedwoman12 @gso_orcus @NotATweeter17 @owillis To put that another way, just because Fascism was popular among certain selfish sectors of America and Europe doesn't mean that other people didn't know it was wrong. Read Neal Gabler's "An Empire of their Own." Many Jews fled Germany as early as the 1920s.

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Neal Gabler's classic history of the early days of the studio system, "An Empire of Their Own," is literally subtitled "How the Jews Invented Hollywood."

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+1 @pmarca. & Gabler’s “An Empire of Their Own” (1988), Hollywood creating fantasy version of USA. Also “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, by Neil Postman. Life is a blend of Huxley AND Orwell, our addiction to amusement, (Stories & TikTok/Reels) & tribal (quasi-state) brainwashing. https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1501965159325061130

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What people are saying

Rubin Safaya

@rubinsafaya

2 years

Mal vivant. Tech devangelist. Critic. Misanthrope.

James Surowiecki is a journalist and author.

Neal Gabler's classic history of the early days of the studio system, "An Empire of Their Own," is literally subtitled "How the Jews Invented Hollywood."

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