Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

A film about the founders of Hollywood and the image of America they helped to build, about a small group of Jewish immigrants who were to turn a fledgling technical invention - moving pictures - into the most influential art form and most important mass medium of the twentieth century. Based on the fact that the founders of the big film studios - Adolph Zukor (Paramount), Carl Laemmle (Universal), Louis B. Mayer (M.G.M), Harry Colin (Columbia), William Fox and the Warner Brothers - were all either European immigrants or at least the sons of immigrants, the film depicts the lives of these producers, a group of men who first had to find their own identity as Americans, but ended up re-inventing Americe itself.