Bertolt Brecht in America (eBook)

James K. Lyon (Autor)

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2014
440 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5590-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Adolf • Albert Maltz • America Alone • American Academy of Arts and Letters • American Literature • american movie • American poetry • A New Germany • Anti-Americanism • Arthur Koestler • Bertolt Brecht • Bruno Frank • Carl Zuckmayer • Charles Boyer • Charles Laughton • Clifford Odets • Cornel Wilde • Counter-Reformation • Dalton Trumbo • Donald Ogden Stewart • Earl Browder • Edward Dmytryk • Emil Ludwig • Epic Theatre • Erich Maria Remarque • Erwin Piscator • Frankfurt School • Franz Werfel • Fritz Kortner • Fritz Lang • F. Scott Fitzgerald • George Froeschel • George Grosz • Gerald L. K. Smith • German Art • Gordon Kahn • Group Theatre (New York) • Gustav Freytag • Hanns Eisler • Hanns Heinz Ewers • Harcourt (publisher) • harold clurman • Harry Hopkins • Heinrich Mann • Herbert Biberman • Irving Pichel • Jack Warner (actor) • Jacques Callot • John Carradine • john howard lawson • John Hubley • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation • Joseph Losey • Josip Broz Tito • Karl August Wittfogel • King Lear • Kurt Weill • Larry Parks • League of American Writers • Lewis Milestone • Lon Chaney • Marc Blitzstein • Martin Esslin • Max Reinhardt • Mein Kampf • Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals • Nazi Agent • Nazi Germany • Nazism • Off-Broadway • Orson Welles • Oskar Homolka • Playwright • Renaissance Art • Roberto Rossellini • Roland Barthes • Samuel Bernstein • Samuel Ornitz • Sam Wanamaker • Sinclair Lewis • Stanislavski's system • Stefan Brecht • Stella Adler • The American Political Tradition • The American Scene • Theatrum mundi • The Congressman • The Germans • The Great Ziegfeld • Theodore Dreiser • The Philosopher • The Story of Louis Pasteur • the threepenny opera • Thornton Wilder • United Artists • Waldo Salt • Walter Benjamin • Weimar Republic • W. H. Auden • William Saroyan
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5590-X / 140085590X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5590-2 / 9781400855902