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Neal Gabler - An Empire of Their Own
How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmel, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, Adolph Zukor

Anhor books, 1988.
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood is a 1988 non-fiction book whose topic is the careers of several prominent Jewish film producers in the early years of Hollywood.[1] Author Neal Gabler focuses on the psychological motivations of these film moguls, arguing that their background as Jewish immigrants shaped their careers and influenced the movies they made.
Themes

Gabler`s main thesis is that these producers (whom Gabler terms `Hollywood Jews`) generally came from poor, fatherless backgrounds, and felt like outsiders in America because of their Jewishness. In Hollywood, these producers were able to run their own industry, assimilate into the American mainstream, and produce movies that fulfilled their vision of the American Dream. In an interview with LA Times, Gabler speaks about the title of the book and American Dream:

They had a hunger for assimilation and, in the face of resistance and exclusion, `the Jews could simply create new a country--an empire of their own, so to speak . . . an America where fathers were strong, families stable, people attractive, resilient, resourceful, and decent.` The 20th-Century American Dream was to a considerable degree depicted and defined by Hollywood.[2]

Gabler asserts that the nature of their business and their movies can often be traced back to their feelings of alienation as immigrants.

The book also explains that the business background of the Hollywood Jews in theatre-ownership, retail distribution, and the garment industry shaped the approach these studio owners took to crafting movies for a popular audience, one similar to the marketing of films as commodities as well as works of art.

The title of the book is a reference to F. Scott Fitzgerald`s unfinished novel The Last Tycoon, in which Fitzgerald describes his protagonist, Monroe Stahr (a character inspired by the producer Irving Thalberg) as `coming home to an empire of his own—an empire he has made.`[3][4][5] The book won the 1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history[6] and the 1989 Theatre Library Association Award.[7]
Adaptations

The book was adapted into a documentary film in 1998, a decade after the book was published. The movie has two titles: Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (original title for A&E) and Hollywood: An Empire of Their Own (title for video/DVD). The documentary won an award for Best Jewish Experience Documentary at the 1998 Jerusalem Film Festival.[8]

Neal Gabler (born 1950) is an American journalist, writer and film critic.[1][2][3]
Education

Gabler graduated from Lane Tech High School in Chicago, Illinois, class of 1967, and was inducted into the National Honor Society. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees in both film and American culture.[3]
Career

Gabler has contributed to numerous publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, Vogue, American Heritage, The New Republic, Us, and Playboy. He has appeared on many television programs, including The Today Show, CBS Morning News, The News Hour, Entertainment Tonight, Charlie Rose, and Good Morning America. He hosted Sneak Previews for PBS, and introduced films on the cable network AMC.

He is the author of seven books: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (1989), Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity (1994), Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (1998); Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (2006); Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power (2016); Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour 1932–1975 (2020); and Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976–2009 (2022).

In 1982, Gabler paired with Jeffrey Lyons as replacement movie reviewers for the PBS show Sneak Previews. The original hosts of Sneak Previews, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, had left the show for contractual reasons and Gabler and Lyons went to Chicago to produce the show. He was a writer for the Detroit Free Press at the time. Gabler left Sneak Previews in 1985 citing differences with the direction of the show. He was replaced by Michael Medved, who had had occasional appearances on Sneak Previews before replacing Gabler full-time.

In a 1988 interview, he remarked that `I`m a great believer both politically and aesthetically in pluralism. There ought to be movies for everybody. There ought to be movies for teenagers and there ought to be Police Academys – so long as they`re well-made and I certainly won`t begrudge anyone that – and there ought to be Tender Mercies and there ought to be Indiana Joneses.`[4]

Gabler was one of four panelists on the Fox News Channel show, Fox News Watch. On February 2, 2008, the show`s host, Eric Burns, announced Gabler had left the show to work for PBS.

In 2016 Gabler attracted commentary for his cover story in The Atlantic entitled `The Shame of Middle Class Americans`, in which he described the precarious debt and financial difficulties of many middle and upper class Americans, and described in some detail his own financial insecurity.[5]

Gabler has taught at the University of Michigan and at Pennsylvania State University. As of September 2011, Gabler is a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University`s Kennedy School of Government. As of 2021 he is on the writing faculty at Stony Brook Southampton,[6] and has been a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center.[7] An excerpt from Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Gabler was used on the AP English Language exam.[citation needed]
Awards

Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Michigan, 1978[1]
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (An Empire of Their Own), 1989
Prix Litteraire (Best Foreign Book on Film or Television Published in French)
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Finalist (Winchell), 1995
Time Magazine Nonfiction Book of the Year (Winchell), 1995
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2005
USA Today Biography of the Year (Walt Disney), 2007
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (Walt Disney) 2007
Kraszna-Krausz Award Runner-Up
Emmy Award, Best Short-Form Writing, 2009
Shorenstein Fellowship, Harvard University, 2011
Tannenbaum Lecturer, Emory University
Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship, Washington College, 2013[8]


Filmography
Sneak Previews (1982–1985)
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul (1993)
Walter Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity (1995)
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen`s (1997)
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998)
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998)
Earl Cunningham: The Dragon of Saint George Street (2004) WMFE-Orlando Documentary
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (2005)

Books

An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Crown, 1988
Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity. Knopf, 1994
Life: the Movie – How Entertainment Conquered Reality. Knopf, 1998
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Knopf, 2006
Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power. Yale University Press, 2016[9]
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour 1932–1975. Crown, 2020[3]
Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976–2009. Crown, 2022
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