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Mar 22, 1998 · Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream: Directed by Simcha Jacobovici, Stuart Samuels. With Neal Gabler, R.H. Thomson, J. Hoberman, Arthur Tracy. The history of the influence of Eastern European Jewish Emigre culture has had on Hollywood and the films created in its golden age.
Mar 20, 1998 · As interviewee Aljean Harmetz proposes, maybe there was no cohesive “American Dream” prior to the Jews’ arrival in California and their invention of a new global religion, Hollywoodism.
The history of the influence of Eastern European Jewish Emigre culture has had on Hollywood and the films created in its golden age. Tagline: They fled a nightmare to build a dream. The film portrays Louis B. Mayer (MGM) as an Eastern European Jew who fled to Hollywood to escape persecution. This is totally false.
It presents all the original movie moguls who where all Jewish & visionary. It's amazing how cinema shaped American Culture and ultimately the world. Showcases some incredible footage &...
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The history of the influence of Eastern European Jewish Emigre culture has had on Hollywood and the films created in its golden age.
HOLLYWOODISM looks at mainstream American cinema from a startling perspective: The American dream - of white picket fences and the outsider who becomes an insider - was born of the hopes, fears and ambitions of shtetl Jews who emigrated to America!
About this movie. Hollywoodism takes us through the establishment of Hollywood, the triumphs of the Golden Age of the 1920’s and 1930’s, the Second World War, and the attack on Hollywood as...
