Bertolt Brecht in America

Bertolt Brecht in America
Title Bertolt Brecht in America PDF eBook
Author James K. Lyon
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 439
Release 2014-07-14
Genre Drama
ISBN 140085590X

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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.

Bertolt Brecht in America

Bertolt Brecht in America
Title Bertolt Brecht in America PDF eBook
Author James K. Lyon
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 439
Release 2014-07-14
Genre Drama
ISBN 140085590X

Download Bertolt Brecht in America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Title Bertolt Brecht PDF eBook
Author John Fuegi
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 244
Release 1987
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521282451

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Covers Brecht's day-to-day work as a theatre director telling how he worked with actors and how his productions were actually put together in rehearsal.

The Fortunes of German Writers in America

The Fortunes of German Writers in America
Title The Fortunes of German Writers in America PDF eBook
Author Wolfgang Elfe
Publisher Univ of South Carolina Press
Pages 336
Release 1992
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780872497863

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Exiled in Paradise

Exiled in Paradise
Title Exiled in Paradise PDF eBook
Author Anthony Heilbut
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 540
Release 2024-07-26
Genre Art
ISBN 0520414365

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A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars—ranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, and Fritz Lang—who fled Hitler's Germany and how they changed the very fabric of American culture. In a new postscript, Heilbut draws attention to the recent changes in reputation and image that have shaped the reception of the German exiles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983 with a paperback in 1997.

Universal Citizenship

Universal Citizenship
Title Universal Citizenship PDF eBook
Author R. Andrés Guzmán
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 278
Release 2019-01-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1477317651

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Recently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on which the notion of universality rests. Rather than jettison the idea of universal citizenship, however, R. Andrés Guzmán builds on these critiques to reaffirm it especially within the fields of Latina/o and ethnic studies. Beyond conceptualizing citizenship as an outcome of recognition and admittance by the nation-state—in a negotiation for the right to have rights—he asserts that, insofar as universal citizenship entails a forceful entrance into the political from the latter’s foundational exclusions, it emerges at the limits of legality and illegality via a process that exceeds identitarian capture. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosopher Alain Badiou’s notion of “generic politics,” Guzmán advances his argument through close analyses of various literary, cultural, and legal texts that foreground contention over the limits of political belonging. These include the French Revolution, responses to Arizona’s H.B. 2281, the 2006 immigrant rights protests in the United States, the writings of Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, Frantz Fanon’s account of Algeria’s anticolonial struggle, and more. In each case, Guzmán traces the advent of the “citizen” as a collective subject made up of anyone who seeks to radically transform the organizational coordinates of the place in which she or he lives.

'Un-American' Hollywood

'Un-American' Hollywood
Title 'Un-American' Hollywood PDF eBook
Author Peter Stanfield
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 368
Release 2007-12-27
Genre History
ISBN 0813543975

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The concept of “un-Americanism,” so vital to the HUAC crusade of the 1940s and 1950s, was resoundingly revived in the emotional rhetoric that followed the September 11th terrorist attacks. Today’s political and cultural climate makes it more crucial than ever to come to terms with the consequences of this earlier period of repression and with the contested claims of Americanism that it generated. “Un-American” Hollywood reopens the intense critical debate on the blacklist era and on the aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. In a series of fresh case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception, the contributors offer exciting and original perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry. Original essays scrutinize the work of individual practitioners, such as Robert Rossen, Joseph Losey, Jules Dassin, and Edward Dmytryk, and examine key films, including The Robe, Christ in Concrete, The House I Live In, The Lawless, The Naked City, The Prowler, Body and Soul, and FTA.