If the sub­ject ‘Jew­ish film’ is defined as a realm of expe­ri­ence at the inter­sec­tion between Judaism and film, then anti­semitism must also be incor­po­rat­ed into any analy­sis of the sub­ject as a core aspect of the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence. While anti­se­mit­ic depic­tions in film have already received a great deal of atten­tion in research, as evi­denced by numer­ous exam­ples analysing Nation­al Social­ist pro­pa­gan­da films, a study of the abstract rela­tion­ship between anti­semitism and film has not yet been car­ried out. The dif­fi­cul­ty in arriv­ing at a clear under­stand­ing of the sub­ject com­plex is due not least to its inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dis­per­sal. At the same time, this inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty rep­re­sents a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore the sub­ject. Fol­low­ing this under­stand­ing, it is the core objec­tive of the dis­ser­ta­tion project to col­late and cat­e­gorise the dis­parate research approach­es in order to find a way to struc­ture the set of issues. To this end, a typol­o­gy of the research lit­er­a­ture on anti­semitism and film will be devel­oped, tak­ing into account the respec­tive under­stand­ings of anti­semitism and their dis­ci­pli­nary loca­tions. This will facil­i­tate a dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion of the var­i­ous lev­els on which the rela­tion­ships between anti­semitism and film are nego­ti­at­ed. They range from dis­cur­sive con­tri­bu­tions, such as film reviews, to the cin­e­ma as a loca­tion when cin­e­mas become a stage of protest for or against cer­tain films. While past research lit­er­a­ture on anti­semitism and film has increas­ing­ly focused on films them­selves, the dis­ser­ta­tion project pro­pos­es con­cen­trat­ing on dis­course about film. This approach bypass­es the poten­tial pit­fall of only per­ceiv­ing anti­semitism in (indi­vid­ual) films, or in the assumed mind­sets of film­mak­ers. In con­trast, this research project will focus on the process­es of soci­etal exam­i­na­tion of anti­semitism and film in order to do jus­tice to the dynam­ic of anti­semitism as a sub­ject, there­by uncov­er­ing its dis­cur­sive shifts. A nuanced pic­ture of films dis­cussed as anti­se­mit­ic can be drawn regard­ing the ques­tion of which pat­terns of argu­men­ta­tion are used in dis­cus­sions of anti­semitism and film and what func­tion is ascribed to anti­semitism in each case. This will enable inclu­sion of the respec­tive speaker’s posi­tion and inter­nal Jew­ish dis­course in addi­tion to a con­sid­er­a­tion of the spe­cif­ic his­tor­i­cal, polit­i­cal and socio­cul­tur­al con­texts. When dif­fer­ent debates are read togeth­er, their pat­terns of con­tent and struc­ture can also bring to light dif­fer­ences and com­mon­al­i­ties in the dis­cus­sions; this can be used in turn to spec­i­fy the mean­ings of anti­semitism in the con­text of a Jew­ish film history.