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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bahr, Ehrhard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Colección:Weimar and now ; 41.
Temas:
1900-1999
Modernism (Aesthetics) > California > Los Angeles.
Germans > California > Los Angeles > Intellectual life.
Jews, German > California > Los Angeles > Intellectual life.
Modernisme (Esthétique) > Californie > Los Angeles.
Allemands > Californie > Los Angeles > Vie intellectuelle.
Juifs allemands > Californie > Los Angeles > Vie intellectuelle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Intellectual life
Germans > Intellectual life
Jews, German > Intellectual life
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Literatur
Exil
Geistesleben
Weimarer Republik
Exilschriftsteller
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
California > Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Kalifornien
Deutschland
Deutsche.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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