Cal Pryluck
 
In response to your research question, I'd venture to say that just about
every book I know about Hollywood and/or the Catskills is about the social
context of entertainment, and you could do worse than start with Neal Gabler's
An Empire of their aown: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (1988) and work
backwards through Gabler's useful though hardly exhaustive bibliography.
 
Mark Shechner
English Department
SUNY, Buffalo