04336nam 2200781 a 450 991114570940332120251117062734.09786612359262978128235926012823592669780520933804052093380X10.1525/9780520933804(CKB)1000000000766289(EBL)470806(OCoLC)609849871(SSID)ssj0000313056(PQKBManifestationID)11224353(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313056(PQKBWorkID)10353068(PQKB)11466911(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055940(MiAaPQ)EBC470806(OCoLC)777466451(MdBmJHUP)muse30472(DE-B1597)520884(DE-B1597)9780520933804(Au-PeEL)EBL470806(CaPaEBR)ebr10676264(CaONFJC)MIL235926(Perlego)552710(EXLCZ)99100000000076628920070105d2007 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWeimar on the Pacific German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism /Ehrhard Bahr1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20071 online resource (xvii, 358 pages) illustrationsWeimar and now : German cultural criticism ;41Description based upon print version of record.9780520257955 0520257952 9780520251281 0520251288 Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-346) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Abbreviations --Preface --Introduction --Chapter 1. The Dialectic of Modernism --Chapter 2. Art and Its Resistance to Society --Chapter 3. Bertolt Brecht's California Poetry --Chapter 4. The Dialectic of Modern Science --Chapter 5. Epic Theater versus Film Noir --Chapter 6. California Modern as Immigrant Modernism --Chapter 7. Between Modernism and Antimodernism --Chapter 8. Renegade Modernism --Chapter 9. The Political Battleground of Exile Modernism --Chapter 10. Evil Germany versus Good Germany --Chapter 11. A "True Modernist" --Conclusion: The Weimar Legacy of Los Angeles --Chronology --Appendices --Bibliography --IndexIn the 1930's and 40's, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals-including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg-who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to address the crisis of modernism that resulted from the rise of National Socialism. Weimar Germany and its culture, with its meld of eighteenth-century German classicism and twentieth-century modernism, served as a touchstone for this group of diverse talents and opinions. Weimar on the Pacific is the first book to examine these artists and intellectuals as a group. Ehrhard Bahr studies selected works of Adorno, Horkheimer, Brecht, Lang, Neutra, Schindler, Döblin, Mann, and Schoenberg, weighing Los Angeles's influence on them and their impact on German modernism. Touching on such examples as film noir and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, Bahr shows how this community of exiles reconstituted modernism in the face of the traumatic political and historical changes they were living through.Weimar and now ;41.Modernism (Aesthetics)CaliforniaLos AngelesGermansCaliforniaLos AngelesIntellectual lifeJews, GermanCaliforniaLos AngelesIntellectual lifeLos Angeles (Calif.)Intellectual life20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)GermansIntellectual life.Jews, GermanIntellectual life.700.89/31079494Bahr Ehrhard131243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911145709403321Weimar on the Pacific4865159UNINA