M.G. Lord Quote
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
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.
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About M.G. Lord
Mary G. Lord (born November 18, 1955) is an American author, cultural critic, and investigative journalist. She was a political cartoonist and columnist for Newsday. She is an associate professor of the practice of English at the University of Southern California.
She produces the podcast, LA Made: The Barbie Tapes with Antonia Cereijido.
She produces the podcast, LA Made: The Barbie Tapes with Antonia Cereijido.