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Brecht On Film and Radio
Bertolt Brecht trans & ed Marc Silberman - HARDBACK Price: $39.95
This volume gathers together, for the first time in
English translation, Brecht’s own writings on the new
film and broadcast technologies that revolutionised
arts and communication in the early part of the
twentieth century
It also includes all of Brecht’s theoretical writing about film, radio, broadcasting and the new media written between 1919 and 1956 as well as all of his important screenplays produced during the 1920s and 1930s
Screenplays written during this time include an early sound-film adaptation of The Threepenny Opera, and a collaboration with Fritz Lang - Hangmen Also Die
Brecht’s writings on the new media document his fascination with it from Weimar Germany to Hollywood and the movie industry
A must for students of Brecht and film studies alike
