In An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Neal Gabler tells how the studio moguls-all immigrants and outsiders-created an "America" that was more "American" than the country ever could be. They formed a "cluster of images and ideas-so powerful that, in a sense, they colonized the American imagination." And Americans, aping those images, ultimately became them. "As a result, the paradox-that the movies were quintessentially American while the men who made them were not- doubled back on itself," Gabler writes. "By creating their idealized America on the screen, the Jews reinvented the country in the image of their fiction.
( M.G. Lord )
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