Planet Auschwitz

"A great text....original in scale and scope."

~Jonathan C. Friedman, author of The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen

Compelling and persuasively argued ... shows the extent to which Holocaust ideas and images have crept into popular horror and science fiction film and TV.

~Oren Baruch Stier, author of Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory

"In this deeply researched and insightful study, Crim lucidly reveals how the Nazi genocide has left an indelible and often unsettling mark on American popular culture."

~Gavriel Rosenfeld, author of Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture

"The industrialized murder of the Shoah, forever associated with concentration camps during World War II, was coined with the term Planet Auschwitz as another world, but is hardly imaginable for younger generations. Brian E. Crim explains astutely how the ripple effect of the Holocaust resonates in American popular culture, especially in the genres of Science Fiction and Horror. This book studies the imagery that persists in visual media but avoids the normalization of the genocide. It keeps the study of the Holocaust alive to guarantee that the “torrent of testimony” will not perish with the last witnesses."

~Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Co-editor of New Perspectives on the War Film

"History professor writes about life on ‘Planet Auschwitz’"
https://www.lynchburg.edu/news/2020/04/history-professor-writes-about-life-on-planet-auschwitz/?fbclid=IwAR38ua3a_14Gehg9cY2D7Xi9JzHCfSyTFaUlARdIVemESFGuIsWId20uFQ0

~University of Lynchburg

"Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" interview with Brian Crim
https://newbooksnetwork.com/brian-crim-planet-auschwitz-holocaust-representation-in-science-fiction-and-horror-film-and-television-rutgers-up-2020/

~New Books Network - New Books in German Studies

"Crim contributes to the scholarship exploring how the Holocaust has filtered down and across popular culture, leaving its trace in numerous ways. His focus is on how it has influenced and shaped science fiction and horror film and television over the past half-century but particularly over the past 20 years."

~Times Higher Education

"Crim offers an engaging interdisciplinary consideration of the Holocaust in horror and science fiction. Across chapters, this book engages with many primary film and television sources [and] supplies an excellent resource for identifying media imprinted by the legacy of the Holocaust."

~Journal of Popular Culture Review

"Crim provides a valuable contribution to Holocaust scholars by having us pay attention to metaphorical representations in works of horror and science fiction."

~Central European History

"Planet Auschwitz ends on a strong note. The book’s deceptively simple premise –reading sf and horror for Holocaust metaphor –reveals its complex layers piece by piece as it goes on, showing how film and television reflect the enduring influence of the Holocaust in the psyche of Western society."

~Science Fiction Film and Television

"His research is up-to-date and meticulous, demonstrating his long familiarity with the complexities and vicissitudes of modern German culture."

~SFRA Review