Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Menorah; Australian Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,1-2 (1990) 94-102
Keywords:
Jews
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
Queries why the treatment of Jews in the Third Reich, and the Holocaust, was either ignored, trivialized, or universalized in the film industry of the 1930s-40s when Hollywood was dominated by Jewish moguls. In addition to the fact that the atmosphere in America may not have been receptive to it, as the controversy surrounding the 1939 anti-Nazi film "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" (which does not mention Jews) attests, the moguls, self-made European Jewish refugees, were insecure and anxious to demonstrate their assimilation and patriotism. Contends that Hollywood lost opportunities for reducing the levels of antisemitism among the population; for example, studies indicate that later films, such as "Crossfire" (1947), contributed to lowering the degree of the viewers' antisemitism.
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