Bertolt Brecht in America /

Bertolt Brecht in America / / James K. Lyon.

This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land.Originally published in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Lyon, James K.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1980
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 657
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t List of Illustrations --   |t Preface --   |t I. Prologue to American Exile --   |t 1. Brecht And America - The New Atlantis --   |t 2. Newyork, 1935 --   |t 3. "Changing Countries More Often Than Shoes" --   |t 4. Culture shock --   |t II. Brecht and Hollywood --   |t 5. "Spellyourname" --   |t 6. Playing "Roulette" With Film Stories --   |t 7. A Qualified Winner - The Film Hangmenalso Die --   |t 8. More hollywood roulette --   |t 9. Film-Writing Till the End --   |t III. The Difficult Brecht --   |t 10. Obdurategenius --   |t IV. Brecht and the American Theater --   |t 11. Building Up to Broadway --   |t 12. Hope, Frustration, and Schweyk in the Second World War --   |t 13. Broadway and the Caucasian Chalk Circle --   |t 14. Off-Broadway, 1945: The Private Life of the Master Race --   |t 15. Broadwayandbust, 1946: The Duchess of Malfi --   |t 16. "Organizing His Fame"- Miscellaneous Dramatic Activities --   |t 17. Charles Laughton And Galileo- Acting as a Mode of Translating --   |t 18. More Galileos --   |t 19. Galileo at Last --   |t V. Brecht and Feelings --   |t 20. Tough tenderness --   |t 21. Brecht and Peter Lorre --   |t 22. Ferdinand Reyher --   |t 23. Brecht's Women --   |t VI. The Charismatic Brecht --   |t 24. Collaboration with Brecht --   |t 25. Young American Disctples --   |t VII. Brecht and the Germans --   |t 26. "Where I am is Germany" - The Refugee Ghetto --   |t 27. Brecht, Thomas Mann, and Germany --   |t VIII. The Ideological Brecht --   |t 28. Anti-Fascist Political Activities --   |t 29. Anti-Fascist Writings --   |t 30. Brecht and the American Left --   |t IX. The Last Act in America --   |t 31. The promise of Europe --   |t 32. Brecht Before "Huac" --   |t X. Epilogue --   |t 33. America Before and After --   |t A Word on Sources --   |t Notes --   |t Published Works Consulted --   |t Selected Bibliography of Brecht's Works in English --   |t Index 
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