Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism /

In the 1930s and '40s, LA became a cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodor W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who were fleeing Nazi Germany. This book is the first to examine their work and liv...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Bahr, Ehrhard
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
سلاسل:Weimar and now ; 41.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295161
جدول المحتويات:
  • The dialectic of modernism
  • Art and its resistance to society: Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theory
  • Bertolt Brecht's California poetry: mimesis or modernism?
  • The dialectic of modern science: Brecht's Galileo
  • Epic theater versus film noir: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's anti-Nazi film Hangmen also die
  • California modern as immigrant modernism: architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler
  • Between modernism and antimodernism: Franz Werfel
  • Renegade modernism: Alfred Döblin's novel Karl and Rosa
  • The political battleground of exile modernism: the Council for a Democratic Germany
  • Evil Germany versus good Germany: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
  • A "True Modernist": Arnold Schoenberg
  • Conclusion: The Weimar legacy of Los Angeles.