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 The Search
Professor Carr’s presentation explores how the American film industry responded to emerging revelations concerning Nazism, atrocities, from 1933 up until the mid 1940s, and how this response served as a template for what later would become the Holocaust film. The presentation will include a full screening of the film The Search.
Steven Alan Carr is Associate Professor of Communication at Indiana University — Purdue University Fort Wayne where he also serves as Graduate Program Director and Co-Director of the recent established IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 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 is the author of 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, the College of the Humanities, the School of Communication and Journalism, Film Studies program in the School for Studies in Arts and Culture, and the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by the generosity of Alan Solomon, MD