Steven Alan Carr, Associate Professor of Communication at Indiana University — Purdue University Fort Wayne
Public Lecture
Anti-Semitism and the Hollywood Social Problem Film
In 1947, Hollywood released two 聽films addressing anti-Semitism as a social problem,聽Crossfire聽(RKO) and聽Gentleman’s Agreement聽(20th Century-Fox). 聽Professor Carr’s lecture will explore what allowed the Hollywood social problem genre to tackle the subject of anti-Semitism and then, just as quickly, drop the subject.
Steven Alan Carr is Associate Professor of Communication at Indiana University — Purdue University Fort Wayne where he also serves as聽Graduate Program Director 聽and 聽Co-Director of the recent established IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 聽Professor Carr was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002-2003 and聽is the author of聽Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History to World War II, New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. His current project explores the response of the American film industry to the growing public awareness of the Holocaust and received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2002.
Professor Carr’s talk is sponsored by the Zellkovitz Centre for Jewish Studies,聽the College of the Humanities, the School of Communication and Journalism, Film Studies program聽in the School for Studies in Arts and Culture at 杏吧原创 University, the Soloway Jewish Community Centre, and the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust聽Studies, supported by the generosity of Alan聽Solomon, MD