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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood Paperback - 1989

by Neal Gabler

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Noted film critic Neal Gabler writes a provocative and richly entertaining biography of the five Jewish men who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. 42 photos.

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  • Title An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
  • Author Neal Gabler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date August 8, 1989
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A0385265573
  • ISBN 9780385265577 / 0385265573
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.38 x 1.2 in (20.57 x 13.67 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Jewish motion picture producers and, Motion picture industry - California - Los
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89032940
  • Dewey Decimal Code 384.809

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From the jacket flap

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.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 07/21/1989, Page 0

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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