An edition of Weimar on the Pacific (2007)

Weimar on the Pacific

German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism

by

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Weimar on the Pacific
Ehrhard Bahr
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by IdentifierBot
August 19, 2010 | History
Edit
An edition of Weimar on the Pacific (2007)

Weimar on the Pacific

German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism

by

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
358

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Subjects
German Jews, Germans, Intellectual life, Jews, German, Modernism (Aesthetics), Modernism (aesthetics), Germans, united states, Jews, united states, Jews, intellectual life, United states, intellectual life
Places
California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.)
Times
20th century

Showing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: Weimar on the Pacific
Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
2008, University of California Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Weimar on the Pacific
Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
2007, University of California Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Weimar on the Pacific
Weimar on the Pacific: German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism
2007, University of California Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Weimar on the Pacific
Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
2007, University of California Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Weimar on the Pacific
Weimar on the Pacific: German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism
2007, University of California Press
in English
  • Not in Library
Libraries near you: WorldCat

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-346) and index.

Published in
Berkeley
Series
Weimar and now -- 41.

Classifications

Library of Congress
BH301.M54 B34 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 358 p. :
Number of pages
358

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23241780M
ISBN 10
0520251288
ISBN 13
9780520251281
LCCN
2007000207
Library Thing
3268668
Goodreads
977110

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
August 19, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
April 24, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs.
April 16, 2010 Edited by bgimpertBot Added goodreads ID.
December 15, 2009 Edited by WorkBot link works
May 29, 2009 Created by ImportBot Imported from marc_cca MARC record.