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Contents List of Illustrations 00 List of Abbreviations 00 Preface 00 Introduction 1 1. The Dialectic of Modernism 000 2. Art and Its Resistance to Society: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 000 3. Bertolt Brecht's California Poetry: Mimesis or Modernism? 000 4. The Dialectic of Modern Science: Brecht's Galileo 000 5. Epic Theater versus Film Noir: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang's Anti-Nazi Film Hangmen Also Die 000 6. California Modern as Immigrant Modernism: Architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler 000 7. Between Modernism and Antimodernism: Franz Werfel 000 8. Renegade Modernism: Alfred Døblin's Novel Karl and Rosa 000 9. The Political Battleground of Exile Modernism: The Council for a Democratic Germany 000 10. Evil Germany versus Good Germany: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus 000 11. A "True Modernist": Arnold Schoenberg 000 Conclusion: The Weimar Legacy of Los Angeles 000 Chronology 000 Appendices I/V I. Addresses of Weimar Exiles and Exile Institutions in Los Angeles 000 II. Filmography: Hangmen Also Die 000 III. Text of the Kol Nidre 000 IV. Lord Byron's "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" 000 V. Text of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor of Warsaw 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- California -- Los Angeles.
Germans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.
Jews, German -- California -- Los Angeles -- Intellectual life.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.