[Commlist] New Book: The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios - University of Exeter Press

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      The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios – University of Exeter Press


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. It also has much appeal for the general reader 
interested in Hollywood history, World War II, the Holocaust, the 
history of American Jewry, and the Roosevelt presidency.


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