Format:
XVII, 358 S.
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Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520251281
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9780520933804
Series Statement:
Weimar and now 41
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodore W Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg. This book examines these artists and intellectuals as a group. It studies selected works of Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht and Lang
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Dialectic of Modernism; 2. Art and Its Resistance to Society:Theodor W. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory; 3. Bertolt Brecht's California Poetry:Mimesis or Modernism?; 4. The Dialectic of Modern Science: Brecht's Galileo; 5. Epic Theater versus Film Noir: Bertolt Brecht andFritz Lang's Anti-Nazi Film Hangmen Also Die; 6. California Modern as Immigrant Modernism:Architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler; 7. Between Modernism and Antimodernism:Franz Werfel
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8. Renegade Modernism: Alfred Döblin's NovelKarl and Rosa9. The Political Battleground of Exile Modernism:The Council for a Democratic Germany; 10. Evil Germany versus Good Germany: Thomas Mann'sDoctor Faustus; 11. A "True Modernist": Arnold Schoenberg; Conclusion: The Weimar Legacy of Los Angeles; Chronology; Appendices I-V; I. Addresses of Weimar Exiles and Exile Institutionsin Los Angeles; II. Filmography: Hangmen Also Die; III. Text of the Kol Nidre; IV. Lord Byron's "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"; V. Text of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor of Warsaw; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520257955
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Weimar on the Pacific : German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Los Angeles, Calif.
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Exil
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Moderne
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