. >> host: you are watching booktv nazis been to of location malibu california at pepperdine university we like to visit universities and colleges to talk to professors who were also offers. we're talking to the author of "igods" here is the book cover but before we get into that what duties jeopardized? >> i am a film maker first so i teach his screenwriting, of production in helping to navigate the entertainment industry. >> host: also a director for the center for its entertainment is part of your professorship? >> a think tank how media and culture impact each other of bull's-eyes hall film and shapes the public conversation to figure out the greater good. talk about christianity and culture? >> as a theologian i have always been interested in how religious feelings are transmitted across culture i have been moved by moving pictures so a this is in a chance with that small screen takes over the big screen. >> host: but also with a jet? train wreck that's right. by lookit these companies that have overtaken our lives whether apple or google or facebook for a amazon those are the big

in this next program on booktv, charlotte bonelli talks about a collection of letters written by a young german jew and her family trapped in europe during the rise of the nazis. the letters provide an insight into the worsening condition in the 1930s and the mindset of the jews and the american government during this period. this is about 50 minutes. >> good evening and welcome. i'm susie jaffe, a member of the ajc national board of governors and past president of ajc's new york region. i am truly delighted that so many of you have come to ajc headquarters this evening to help celebrate the launch of "exit berlin: how one woman saved her family from nazi germany," and to hear directly from charlotte bonelli, the group's author and director of ajc archives. i read the book cover to cover in one seating, and i can promise you, you're in for a real treat. "exit berlin" is based on more than 300 letters lucy hatch wrote to her parents and other relatives left behind in germany after she came by herself to new york in 1938 about a week after -- [inaudible] and also letters she wrote to her american cousin arnold in albany who assisted in so many ways in the rescu