About this title: In the 1930s and 40s, 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 5-2-07
ISBN-13:9780520251281ISBN:0520251288
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the dustjacket and a remainder mark to one edge-VERY NICE! 1.6 lbs. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780520251281ISBN:0520251288
Description: New in new dust jacket. Nice new hardcover with dust jacket! Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Securely packed. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 358 p. Contains: Illustrations. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism (Hardcover), 41. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 5-2-07
ISBN-13:9780520251281ISBN:0520251288
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean and unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the dust jacket, remainder mark to one edge-VERY NICE! ! 1.6 lbs. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Univ. PRESSES OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA AND PRINCETON Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780520251281ISBN:0520251288
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 378 pages. In the 1930s and 40s, los angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a group of german artists and intellectuals-including thomas mann, theodore w adorno, bertolt brecht, fritz lang, and arnold schoenberg. this book examines these artists and intellectuals as a group. it studies selected works of adorno, horkheimer, brecht and lang. illustrations (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780520251281ISBN:0520251288
Description: New. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 358 p. Contains: Illustrations. Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism (Hardcover), 41. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780520257955ISBN:0520257952
Description: New. Featuring such examples as film noir and Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus", this book shows how a community of exiles reconstituted modernism in the face of the traumatic political and historical changes they were living through. read more
Description: Good. 0520251288 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780520251281ISBN:0520251288
Description: New. In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a group of German artists and intellectuals-including Thomas Mann, Theodore W Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg. This book examines these artists and... read more
Description: Good. 0520251288 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520257955ISBN:0520257952
Description: Good. 0520257952 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520257955ISBN:0520257952
Description: Good. 0520257952 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520257955ISBN:0520257952
Description: New. 0520257952 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520257955ISBN:0520257952
Description: New. 0520257952 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780520251281ISBN:0520251288
Description: New. "Ehrhard Bahr's sophisticated introduction to the Los Angeles of the emigres from Nazi Germany is a quintessential 'Hollywood' book: brilliant in casting, sunny in disposition, with hidden film noir touches. Bahr's reading of the central books of thi... read more
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