An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

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.

The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American Dream. Even to this day, the American values defined largely by the movies of these migr s endure in American cinema and culture. Who these men were, how they came to dominate Hollywood, and what they gained and lost in the process is the exhilarating story of An Empire of Their Own.

Author: Neal Gabler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 08/08/1989
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.38w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780385265577
Language: English