The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios
At Home and Abroad
By (author) Steven Carr
Hardback (Published)
(July 2026)
ISBN: 9781804130742
6.14 x 9.21 inches
Price: $126.00
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This book traces the complex relationship entangling American movie studios with Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust throughout the 1930s and 1940s. It explains the encounter not just through isolated films or a few individuals, but by revealing how the path to genocide touched almost every aspect of film business operations.
What did Hollywood know and do about growing Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as America and the rest of the world waited to respond?
This book traces the complex relationship entangling American movie studios with Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Many film and general histories of the period have concluded that Hollywood could or should have done more to call attention to the growing threat. Yet the very same market forces of the 1920s that brought about rapid expansion of the film industry overseas later embroiled Hollywood in a complex anti-Semitic disinformation campaign at home and abroad that targeted the industry and even threatened its very existence.
Faced with attacks and accusations of warmongering at home, Hollywood’s responses occurred within the ever-evolving and precarious context of the time. This important volume situates and explains Hollywood’s encounter with Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, not just through isolated films or a few individuals, but in terms of how the path to genocide touched almost every aspect of film business operations along the way. A wealth of new archival research and scholarship across multiple perspectives are examined to bring a fresh and nuanced understanding.
The book will be of interest to academics and students in Film Studies, Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Mass Media, American History, and American Studies.
Steven Alan Carr is a film and media historian and Director of the Purdue University Fort Wayne Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and a Loewenstein-Wiener Marcus Research Fellow at the American Jewish Archives. He is the author of Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History Up to World War II (2001), co-author with Jennifer Frost of Teaching History with Message Movies (2018), and has written many other published essays.
- By (author) Steven Carr
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