Steven Alan Carr
Biographic Data
| ID | 4789528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Alan Carr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Carr |
| SIGNATURE | CARR S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Night Will Fall (2014; HBO, 2015) and the Holocaust simulacrum
Now quickly approaching 75 years since Liberation, the maw between the contemporary mediated representation of the Holocaust and the historical events those representations reference only grows eve
On Doherty’s Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939
On Doherty’s Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 Steven Alan Carr Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939. By Thomas Doherty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 448 pp., ISBN 978-0-2311-6392-7 (hc). US $35.00. Perhaps because of my own minor role in the controversy that engulfed Thomas Doherty’s vivid, compelling, and expertly researched survey of Hollywood’s response to the rise of Nazism, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939, it is hard to avoid mention…
Hollywood and Anti-Semitism
This book examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry, from the turn of the century to the outbreak of World War II. Eastern European Jewish immigrants are often credited with building a film industry during the first decade of the twentieth century that they dominated by the 1920s. In this study, Steven Carr reconceptualizes Jewish involvement in Hollywood by examining prevalent attitudes towards Jews among American audience…
On the Edge of Tastelessness
It is hard to imagine a time when a critic could seriously claim that skits mocking the Revolutionary War or the first Trans-Atlantic flight were the edge of tastelessness because insulting our heroes... was definitely over the edge.' Yet it was over this other issues of taste that one of American television's most vehement struggles for control occurred. stakes were censorship, free speech, the right to determine programming content, the players…
On the Edge of Tastelessness
It is hard to imagine a time when a critic could seriously claim that skits mocking the Revolutionary War or the first Trans-Atlantic flight were the edge of tastelessness because insulting our heroes... was definitely over the edge.' Yet it was over this other issues of taste that one of American television's most vehement struggles for control occurred. stakes were censorship, free speech, the right to determine programming content, the players…
On the Edge of Tastelessness
It is hard to imagine a time when a critic could seriously claim that skits mocking the Revolutionary War or the first Trans-Atlantic flight were the edge of tastelessness because insulting our heroes... was definitely over the edge.' Yet it was over this other issues of taste that one of American television's most vehement struggles for control occurred. stakes were censorship, free speech, the right to determine programming content, the players…
Hollywood and Anti-Semitism
This book examines the role of American Jews in the entertainment industry, from the turn of the century to the outbreak of World War II. Eastern European Jewish immigrants are often credited with building a film industry during the first decade of the twentieth century that they dominated by the 1920s. In this study, Steven Carr reconceptualizes Jewish involvement in Hollywood by examining prevalent attitudes towards Jews among American audience…
On Doherty’s Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939
On Doherty’s Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 Steven Alan Carr Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939. By Thomas Doherty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 448 pp., ISBN 978-0-2311-6392-7 (hc). US $35.00. Perhaps because of my own minor role in the controversy that engulfed Thomas Doherty’s vivid, compelling, and expertly researched survey of Hollywood’s response to the rise of Nazism, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939, it is hard to avoid mention…
Night Will Fall (2014; HBO, 2015) and the Holocaust simulacrum
Now quickly approaching 75 years since Liberation, the maw between the contemporary mediated representation of the Holocaust and the historical events those representations reference only grows eve
Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Hollywood (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)