Weimar on the Pacific
Subtitle: German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism
By: Ehrhard Bahr.
Series: Weimar and now -- 41.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780520251281
Subjects: Modernism (Aesthetics) -- California -- Los Angeles; Germans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life; Jews, German -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: The dialectic of modernism; title: Art and its resistance to society: Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theory; title: Bertolt Brecht's California poetry: mimesis or modernism?; title: The dialectic of modern science: Brecht's Galileo; title: Epic theater versus film noir: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's anti-Nazi film Hangmen also die; title: California modern as immigrant modernism: architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler; title: Between modernism and antimodernism: Franz Werfel; title: Renegade modernism: Alfred Döblin's novel Karl and Rosa; title: The political battleground of exile modernism: the council for a democratic Germany; title: Evil Germany versus good Germany: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus; title: a "true modernist": Arnold Schoenberg; title: Conclusion: the Weimar legacy of Los Angeles.