Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / Ehrhard Ba...
Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / Ehrhard Ba...
Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / Ehrhard Bahr.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
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N700.8931/1
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English
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xvii, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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 and Fritz Lang's...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
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California
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c2007.
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"In the 1930s and '40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals - including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg - who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to addre...
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Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / Ehrhard Bahr.
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Weimar and now ; 41.
Weimar and now ; 41.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-346) and index.
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c2007.
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N700.8931/1
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74VK7Nwx57pZ
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9780520251281 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520251288 (cloth : alk. paper)
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700.8931079494
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991022880079702626
