Bertolt Brecht in America 1st Edition by James K Lyon ISBN 140085590X 9781400855902

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ISBN 10: 140085590X

ISBN 13: 9781400855902 

Author: James K. Lyon

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.

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Table of contents:

I. Prologue to American Exile

1. Brecht and America — The New Atlantis
2. New York, 1935
3. “Changing Countries More Often Than Shoes”
4. Culture Shock

II. Brecht and Hollywood
5. “Spell Your Name”
6. Playing “Roulette” with Film Stories
7. A Qualified Winner—The Film Hangmen Also Die
8. More Hollywood Roulette
9. Film-Writing Till the End

III. The Difficult Brecht
10. Obdurate Genius

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. Broadway and Bust, 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 Disciples

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”

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