Word: brecht
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bertolt Brecht. In a music-hall saturnalia of honky-tonk pianos, white masks and silent movie captions, the late great German playwright fashioned a prophetically dramatic exercise in brainwashing. "One man is no man," comments Playwright Brecht in this mocking, 20th century lament for the death of the individual...
Almost all of the seminars will have assigned readings. Grossman will have his students reading Goethe's Faust, Part I, Gotthelf's Black Spider, and Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan. Af- fred B. Lord, professor of Slavic and of Comparative Literature, will assign various Bible readings for his seminar, "Myth and Oral Tradition in the Bible," in order to promote "informal but informed discussion...
...Bertolt Brecht. This Eric Bentley adaptation of a 1926 play by the late great German playwright uncannily prefigures the process of brainwashing. Amid chalky white masks, silent-movie captions and honky-tonk pianos, a sardonic 20th century dirge is sounded for the death of the individual...
Yojimbo. A Japanese movie that really is great: a work by Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa that seems no more than a bloody and hilarious parody of a Hollywood western but develops into a satire that can stand with the beastliest and best of Bertolt Brecht...
...Bertolt Brecht. This Eric Bentley adaptation of a 1926 play by the late great German playwright uncannily prefigures the process of brainwashing. Amid chalky white masks, silent-movie captions, and honky-tonk pianos, a sardonic 20th century dirge is sounded for the death of the individual...