Contribution to Book
28 May 1942: Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang Write a Hollywood Screenplay
A New History of German Cinema
(2012)
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
Disciplines
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/