Brecht on film and radio / translated and edited by Marc Silberman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silberman, Marc, 1948- translator, editor.

Series:

Diaries, Letters and Essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.

Radio plays--History and criticism.

Film criticism.

Motion picture plays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Bertolt Brecht's hugely influential views on drama, acting and stage production have long been widely recognised. Less familiar, but of profound importance, are his writings on film and radio. From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together for the first time a selection of Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that fascinated him throughout his life and revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Marc Silberman's full editorial commentary sets Brecht's ideas in the context of his other work. "I strongly wish that after their invention of the radio the bourgeoisie would make a further invention that enables us to fix for all time what the radio communicates. Later generations would then have the opportunity to marvel how a caste was able to tell the whole planet what it had to say and at the same time how it enabled the planet to see that it had nothing to say." (Bertolt Brecht)

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Part I: Texts and Fragments on the Cinema (1919�55)""; ""On Life in the Theatre""; ""On Film""; ""The German Chamber Film""; ""Less Certainty!!!""; ""From the ABCs of the Epic Theatre""; ""Mutilated Films""; ""The World is Yours""; ""Intoxicating Effect""; ""V-Effects of Chaplin""; ""The Verfremdungseffekt in the Other Arts""; ""On Film Music""; ""Wilhelm Dieterle's Gallery of Grand-Bourgeois Figures""; ""Efforts to Save the Film The Axe of Wandsbek""; ""On the Filming of Literary Texts""

""On the Courage Film""""Questions [about the Courage Film]""; ""File Note [Courage Film]""; ""The Film Mother Courage""; ""On the Puntila Script""; ""The Storytelling Women in the Estate Kitchen [Puntila Film]""; ""Billiard Room in the Hotel Tavastberg [Puntila Film]""; ""Part II: Texts on Radio Broadcasting (1926�1932)""; ""Young Drama and the Radio""; ""Suggestions for the Director of Radio Broadcasting""; ""Radio � An Antediluvian Invention?""; ""On Utilizations""; ""Explanations [about The Flight of the Lindberghs]""; ""The Radio as a Communications Apparatus""

""Part III: Early screenplays (1921)""""The Mystery of the Jamaica Bar""; ""The Jewel Eater""; ""Three in the Tower""; ""Part IV: The Threepenny Material (1930�1932)""; ""The Bruise � A Threepenny Film""; ""No Insight through Photography""; ""On the Discussion about Sound Film""; ""Meddling with the Poetic Substance""; ""The Experiment is Dead, Long Live the Experiment!""; ""The Threepenny Lawsuit""; ""Part V: The Kuhle Wampe Film (1932)""; ""Film without Commercial Value""; ""The Sound Film Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?""; ""The Film Kuhle Wampe""

""Short Contribution on the Theme of Realism""""Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? [scene segmentation]""; ""Translator's Notes""; ""Index of Works by Bertolt Brecht""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

"Original work entitled: Bertolt Brecht Werke. Grosse Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe (vols. 19, 21, 23, 24)."

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 16, 2015).

ISBN:

9781408171288

1408171287

OCLC:

905691386