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    512 páginas
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    Inglés
  3. Editorial
    Vintage
  4. Fecha de publicación
    8 Septiembre 1989
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    5.17 x 1.11 x 8 pulgadas
  6. ISBN-10
    0385265573
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0385265577
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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 émigrés 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.

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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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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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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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e 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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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.

Biografía del autor

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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    A storied history
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    Just as the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers ruled American business, only fade away, so too did the Cohns, the Warners, who reigned over the kingdom of Hollywood. Until they didn’t. But in that brief time, the built an empire that not transformed and created a... Ver más
    Just as the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers ruled American business, only fade away, so too did the Cohns, the Warners, who reigned over the kingdom of Hollywood. Until they didn’t. But in that brief time, the built an empire that not transformed and created a state of mind that remains undimmed. The book is an exhaustive history, an enthralling peek behind the curtain, and ,at times, as entertaining as the movies themselves.
    Just as the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers ruled American business, only fade away, so too did the Cohns, the Warners, who reigned over the kingdom of Hollywood. Until they didn’t. But in that brief time, the built an empire that not transformed and created a state of mind that remains undimmed. The book is an exhaustive history, an enthralling peek behind the curtain, and ,at times, as entertaining as the movies themselves.
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    This book is probably the most interesting book I’ve ever read. The writer definitely did his homework. It will show you exactly how Hollywood got started. It breaks down these moguls of Hollywood and this book tells all. Read this book with an open mind and heart. It will... Ver más
    This book is probably the most interesting book I’ve ever read. The writer definitely did his homework. It will show you exactly how Hollywood got started. It breaks down these moguls of Hollywood and this book tells all. Read this book with an open mind and heart. It will shock you and make you understand why Hollywood is the way it is today! Highly recommended this book!!!
    I’m adding to my review on this book, it’s a book that reveals the importance of how the “American culture” has been tricked by Hollywood in the sense that fantasy of Hollywood plays into reality. The “American dream” was invented by Hollywood moguls. It seems like people can’t separate their fantasies from reality
    This book is probably the most interesting book I’ve ever read. The writer definitely did his homework. It will show you exactly how Hollywood got started. It breaks down these moguls of Hollywood and this book tells all. Read this book with an open mind and heart. It will shock you and make you understand why Hollywood is the way it is today! Highly recommended this book!!!
    I’m adding to my review on this book, it’s a book that reveals the importance of how the “American culture” has been tricked by Hollywood in the sense that fantasy of Hollywood plays into reality. The “American dream” was invented by Hollywood moguls. It seems like people can’t separate their fantasies from reality
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    Great book for film fans of the Golden era.
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    Fascinating overall but found the chapter on HUAC investigations a little too long. Amazing men if somewhat ruthless. They don't make individuals like this anymore.
    Fascinating overall but found the chapter on HUAC investigations a little too long. Amazing men if somewhat ruthless. They don't make individuals like this anymore.
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    A must read for those seeking truth
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    If you want to understand the sordid and vile ways of Hollywood, this book explains it to you. Read it, look at the world and then start asking difficult questions.
    If you want to understand the sordid and vile ways of Hollywood, this book explains it to you. Read it, look at the world and then start asking difficult questions.
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    A glorious tale of Jewish Hollywood filled with contradiction, irony and bittersweet agita
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    This book is not just about a religious tribe pioneering the birth of movieland but also the humanity and pathos that inspired the Big Bang of 20th century cinema. They came from the ghettos of Europe escaping persecution, turned their backs on impoverished upbringings,... Ver más
    This book is not just about a religious tribe pioneering the birth of movieland but also the humanity and pathos that inspired the Big Bang of 20th century cinema. They came from the ghettos of Europe escaping persecution, turned their backs on impoverished upbringings, peasant parentage and created a celluloid dream world where they could rise to high society and forget their worries as well as our own. Having hit Hollywood's genesis stride before, during and after the Great War, they retreated America into a 40 foot escapism where the silver screen was at first safe from unhappy endings. Some were workaholics who died young, others had family rivalries embroiled in domestic strife. But many had compromised their sense of personal identity to sell larger than life make believe and fit into the new world.

    Through it all, these cinematic giants were steadfast to an early optimism of an America that refused to be down and out when theater pastime reflected our best and brightest showmen, players and storytellers. But it was not simply the vision of the people of the book but of the different ethnic groups within their ranks whose life philosophies reflected the subject matter of their productions. Laemmle's Universal evolved from B movies to iconic horror films, Zukor's Paramount reveled in lavish epic productions, Fox staged star system vehicle extravaganzas, Cohn's Columbia feel good everyman allegories, Warner Brothers street tough film noir and Loew's MGM lighthearted family fare and musicals. Downplaying their proud religion, their underlying ethnicities were also part of the white power structure majority of America itself to which most of them easily assimilated.

    The only critical thing that can be said about this intricate portrait is that in its dedication to the personalities of the men who were the bosses of the early dream factory, it sometimes confuses the extent of their business influence with on the job credit of actual artists who did the work. All this when it was their underlings who were often the fall guys in the McCarthyism era when the big shot studio heads who bowed to the conservative status quo were besieged by blacklists as that same power elite turned its back on them and equated Judaism with a Communist menace. And so any ideals that they once clung to in the form of motion picture messages were usurped by their becoming victims of a system envious and jealous of their power and bent on antisemitic witch hunts.

    Biased on the defensive as witness to the latter, Empire's begrudging entertainment focus is on social politics and not the masterful quality of old classic Hollywood. And it gives this book a bittersweet slant that forgoes a wealth of content to explore the outsider psychology of success. In it we learn that moguls were smitten by movies with virtuous themes but often failed to live up to setting good examples behind the scenes. A largely right wing studio power structure born of a will to belong practiced a social exclusion that betrayed its utopian film vision. In many cases, for legendary figures unable or unwilling to see the big picture outside the myopic rose colored lenses of fame and fortune, good business was a matter of political expediency and self preservation. So their success did not always add up to happiness because power player relevancy faded with the passage of time and did not redeem their social well being in retirement.

    For Jews shut out of other business destined to dominate the movie biz as poetic justice, the understatement of their legacy was an inclusive rainbow of American Dream contributions despite stereotyping and marginalization of non blue blood whites in image depiction and pay scale. The social conscience of America was captured by Sicilian immigrant director, Frank Capra, whose hit movies virtually made Columbia. Louis B. Mayer's favorite family value film was based on a William Saroyan novel. The most prolific luminary to try to break the blacklist was not a member of the tribe but singer/actor Frank Sinatra, who was known for an Academy Award-winning short on tolerance long before it was even remotely fashionable. And last but not least, Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy became the All American star of the 1940s.

    As a research tool and conversation piece, this book serves as a historical backlog for the reasons why golden age Hollywood remains the quality yardstick for movie media. The startup moguls were first generation upstarts who wanted to become a part of the land of the free without an agenda separating their vision of good entertainment from that of the heartland. They mapped their imagination to the pulse of what John Q. Public wanted. If it was politically correct or prudent, rather than exploit their successful status as pop culture executors, they used it for good will, as an extension of classic literate motifs and a force for education. Since they were salt of the earth from a much simpler time, they got off on the soft sell before hard bean counters took over and made sin and sinners a box office opiate.

    If this has a poignant coda, it mourns tribal forces in La La Land who flourished as founding film industry fathers but lost themselves in real life as a consequence. They sacrificed their souls to lay claim to the moving picture zeitgeist but were disillusioned by identity crises in the struggle for success. The last part laments how obsolete players of old Hollywood were supplanted by a new breed prone to changing mores after the war years. What the enduring triumph of this book is is that it profiles that greatest generation of ingenious immigrants who gave Hollywood the gift of innocence that mirrored their own hopes and dreams for America. If you feel that you have to live in the past to see a truly great film, then it's because of these immortals and they are owed a deep debt of gratitude for a Hollywood gone forever but not forgotten by movie fans with class, style and taste.
    This book is not just about a religious tribe pioneering the birth of movieland but also the humanity and pathos that inspired the Big Bang of 20th century cinema. They came from the ghettos of Europe escaping persecution, turned their backs on impoverished upbringings, peasant parentage and created a celluloid dream world where they could rise to high society and forget their worries as well as our own. Having hit Hollywood's genesis stride before, during and after the Great War, they retreated America into a 40 foot escapism where the silver screen was at first safe from unhappy endings. Some were workaholics who died young, others had family rivalries embroiled in domestic strife. But many had compromised their sense of personal identity to sell larger than life make believe and fit into the new world.

    Through it all, these cinematic giants were steadfast to an early optimism of an America that refused to be down and out when theater pastime reflected our best and brightest showmen, players and storytellers. But it was not simply the vision of the people of the book but of the different ethnic groups within their ranks whose life philosophies reflected the subject matter of their productions. Laemmle's Universal evolved from B movies to iconic horror films, Zukor's Paramount reveled in lavish epic productions, Fox staged star system vehicle extravaganzas, Cohn's Columbia feel good everyman allegories, Warner Brothers street tough film noir and Loew's MGM lighthearted family fare and musicals. Downplaying their proud religion, their underlying ethnicities were also part of the white power structure majority of America itself to which most of them easily assimilated.

    The only critical thing that can be said about this intricate portrait is that in its dedication to the personalities of the men who were the bosses of the early dream factory, it sometimes confuses the extent of their business influence with on the job credit of actual artists who did the work. All this when it was their underlings who were often the fall guys in the McCarthyism era when the big shot studio heads who bowed to the conservative status quo were besieged by blacklists as that same power elite turned its back on them and equated Judaism with a Communist menace. And so any ideals that they once clung to in the form of motion picture messages were usurped by their becoming victims of a system envious and jealous of their power and bent on antisemitic witch hunts.

    Biased on the defensive as witness to the latter, Empire's begrudging entertainment focus is on social politics and not the masterful quality of old classic Hollywood. And it gives this book a bittersweet slant that forgoes a wealth of content to explore the outsider psychology of success. In it we learn that moguls were smitten by movies with virtuous themes but often failed to live up to setting good examples behind the scenes. A largely right wing studio power structure born of a will to belong practiced a social exclusion that betrayed its utopian film vision. In many cases, for legendary figures unable or unwilling to see the big picture outside the myopic rose colored lenses of fame and fortune, good business was a matter of political expediency and self preservation. So their success did not always add up to happiness because power player relevancy faded with the passage of time and did not redeem their social well being in retirement.

    For Jews shut out of other business destined to dominate the movie biz as poetic justice, the understatement of their legacy was an inclusive rainbow of American Dream contributions despite stereotyping and marginalization of non blue blood whites in image depiction and pay scale. The social conscience of America was captured by Sicilian immigrant director, Frank Capra, whose hit movies virtually made Columbia. Louis B. Mayer's favorite family value film was based on a William Saroyan novel. The most prolific luminary to try to break the blacklist was not a member of the tribe but singer/actor Frank Sinatra, who was known for an Academy Award-winning short on tolerance long before it was even remotely fashionable. And last but not least, Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy became the All American star of the 1940s.

    As a research tool and conversation piece, this book serves as a historical backlog for the reasons why golden age Hollywood remains the quality yardstick for movie media. The startup moguls were first generation upstarts who wanted to become a part of the land of the free without an agenda separating their vision of good entertainment from that of the heartland. They mapped their imagination to the pulse of what John Q. Public wanted. If it was politically correct or prudent, rather than exploit their successful status as pop culture executors, they used it for good will, as an extension of classic literate motifs and a force for education. Since they were salt of the earth from a much simpler time, they got off on the soft sell before hard bean counters took over and made sin and sinners a box office opiate.

    If this has a poignant coda, it mourns tribal forces in La La Land who flourished as founding film industry fathers but lost themselves in real life as a consequence. They sacrificed their souls to lay claim to the moving picture zeitgeist but were disillusioned by identity crises in the struggle for success. The last part laments how obsolete players of old Hollywood were supplanted by a new breed prone to changing mores after the war years. What the enduring triumph of this book is is that it profiles that greatest generation of ingenious immigrants who gave Hollywood the gift of innocence that mirrored their own hopes and dreams for America. If you feel that you have to live in the past to see a truly great film, then it's because of these immortals and they are owed a deep debt of gratitude for a Hollywood gone forever but not forgotten by movie fans with class, style and taste.
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    A fascinating tale of hubris disguised as genius.
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 4 de octubre de 2017
    Despite perplexing use of the hyphen and mistakes confusing the words gentile and genteel I loved this book. The early tales of the studios founders is a great read. But the book really comes into its own when the nasty politics begin to take a toll on the Studios. While... Ver más
    Despite perplexing use of the hyphen and mistakes confusing the words gentile and genteel I loved this book. The early tales of the studios founders is a great read. But the book really comes into its own when the nasty politics begin to take a toll on the Studios. While many of the film executives were almost deaf to Hitler and his murder of Jews, the national swing to the right and paranoid fear of communists came close to destroying the studios. The studio heads cooperated with the HUAC and betrayed the writers and directors genius and creativity was responsible for the decades of profit for studio bosses. The studio heads had the hubris to pretend that they were the creative force in what a become a reflection of American culture and a major economic contributor to American prosperity. But their refusal to unionize and their refusal to accommodate the Screen Writers Guild in many ways contributed to the downfall of their empire.
    Despite perplexing use of the hyphen and mistakes confusing the words gentile and genteel I loved this book. The early tales of the studios founders is a great read. But the book really comes into its own when the nasty politics begin to take a toll on the Studios. While many of the film executives were almost deaf to Hitler and his murder of Jews, the national swing to the right and paranoid fear of communists came close to destroying the studios. The studio heads cooperated with the HUAC and betrayed the writers and directors genius and creativity was responsible for the decades of profit for studio bosses. The studio heads had the hubris to pretend that they were the creative force in what a become a reflection of American culture and a major economic contributor to American prosperity. But their refusal to unionize and their refusal to accommodate the Screen Writers Guild in many ways contributed to the downfall of their empire.
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