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28 May 1942: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang Write a Hollywood Screenplay
A New History of German Cinema (2012)
  • Jonathan Skolnik
Abstract
A study of the anti-Nazi film Hangmen Also Die (Dir. Fritz Lang, 1943), centering on the work as a collaborative product of German exile culture and anti-fascist aesthetics, with a focus on the collaboration between Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler, and Fritz Lang.

Keywords
  • film,
  • cinema,
  • exile,
  • anti-fascist,
  • anti-Nazi,
  • Hollywood,
  • Brecht,
  • Eisler,
  • Fritz Lang,
  • resistance,
  • German film,
  • German exile,
  • concentration camps,
  • Nazi,
  • Soviet cinema,
  • film music,
  • modernism,
  • politics and film
Publication Date
2012
Editor
Jennifer M. Kapczynski & Michael D. Richardson
Citation Information
Jonathan Skolnik. "28 May 1942: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang Write a Hollywood Screenplay" A New History of German Cinema (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jonathan_skolnik/4/