Two brilliant books by two brilliant Jewish authors go into this:

1) \”An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood\” by Neil Gabler. Paul Schrader frequently cites it as a favorite of his. Great book.

2) And recently, there was \”The Big Picture\” by Edward Jay Epstein, which has a brilliant summary of how the Jews\’ commercial beginnings to the industry they created then shaped the cultural values of the corporate culture which later took over in present day.

3) Jewish writer-producer David Milch has given lectures on how the Jewish bosses who ran Hollywood hired a \”front Gentile\” named
Hayes to promote the Production Code, which they themselves collusively wrote, in order to keep government anti-trust lawyers from taking the job of policing them. As Jews, they knew they were outsiders in a Christian nation, and since they were, at that time, among the highest paid executives in the world in any industry, they wanted to make sure they didn\’t \”rock the boat.\” So they themselves wrote a \”censorship code\” to send the message: \”We\’re going to keep giving you YOUR idea of America in our films, as long as you keep buying tickets.\”

The modern MPAA is itself a direct descendent of this practice (industry \”policing\” itself to maximize its own profits). See Kirby Dick\’s \”This Film is Not Yet Rated\” for examples.

JLG\’s comments about black people are, um, another conversation.