Steven Alan Carr, Associate Professor of Communication at Indiana University — Purdue University Fort Wayne
Public Lecture:
Hollywood, Nazism, and Globalization: Popular Culture and the Birth of the Holocaust Film, 1933-1945
Screening of聽The Search
Professor Carr’s presentation explores how the American film industry responded to emerging revelations concerning Nazism,聽atrocities, from 1933 up until the mid 1940s, and how this response served as a template for what later would become the Holocaust film. 聽The presentation will include a full screening of the film聽The Search.
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,聽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