Bertolt Brecht in America / James K. Lyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyon, James K., author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, German--20th century--Biography.

Authors, German.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Exile--United States.

Brecht, Bertolt.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956--Appreciation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1980]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

I. Prologue to American Exile

1. Brecht And America - The New Atlantis

2. Newyork, 1935

3. "Changing Countries More Often Than Shoes"

4. Culture shock

II. Brecht and Hollywood

5. "Spellyourname"

6. Playing "Roulette" With Film Stories

7. A Qualified Winner - The Film Hangmenalso Die

8. More hollywood roulette

9. Film-Writing Till the End

III. The Difficult Brecht

10. Obdurategenius

IV. Brecht and the American Theater

11. Building Up to Broadway

12. Hope, Frustration, and Schweyk in the Second World War

13. Broadway and the Caucasian Chalk Circle

14. Off-Broadway, 1945: The Private Life of the Master Race

15. Broadwayandbust, 1946: The Duchess of Malfi

16. "Organizing His Fame"- Miscellaneous Dramatic Activities

17. Charles Laughton And Galileo- Acting as a Mode of Translating

18. More Galileos

19. Galileo at Last

V. Brecht and Feelings

20. Tough tenderness

21. Brecht and Peter Lorre

22. Ferdinand Reyher

23. Brecht's Women

VI. The Charismatic Brecht

24. Collaboration with Brecht

25. Young American Disctples

VII. Brecht and the Germans

26. "Where I am is Germany" - The Refugee Ghetto

27. Brecht, Thomas Mann, and Germany

VIII. The Ideological Brecht

28. Anti-Fascist Political Activities

29. Anti-Fascist Writings

30. Brecht and the American Left

IX. The Last Act in America

31. The promise of Europe

32. Brecht Before "Huac"

X. Epilogue

33. America Before and After

A Word on Sources

Notes

Published Works Consulted

Selected Bibliography of Brecht's Works in English

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

9781400855902

140085590X

OCLC:

1013948955