The Berlin of Sally Bowles

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Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Berlin of Sally Bowles by : Christopher Isherwood

Download or read book The Berlin of Sally Bowles written by Christopher Isherwood and published by London : Hogarth Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Goodbye to Berlin

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Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Goodbye to Berlin by : Christopher Isherwood

Download or read book Goodbye to Berlin written by Christopher Isherwood and published by London : Hogarth Press. This book was released on 1939 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Am a Camera

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822205456
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis I Am a Camera by : John Van Druten

Download or read book I Am a Camera written by John Van Druten and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Berlin between the two world wars the play explores the tensions leading to the rise of Hitler.

Divine Decadence

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863007
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Divine Decadence by : Linda Mizejewski

Download or read book Divine Decadence written by Linda Mizejewski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "divine decadence"--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "shocking" British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin. Originally a character in a short story by Isherwood, published in 1939, "Sally" has appeared over the years in John Van Druten's stage play I Am a Camera, Henry Cornelius's film of the same name, and Joe Masteroff's stage musical and Bob Fosse's Academy Award-winning musical film, both entitled Cabaret. Linda Mizejewski shows how each successive repetition of the tale of the showgirl and the male writer/scholar has linked the young man's fascination with Sally more closely to the fascination of fascism. In every version, political difference is read as sexual difference, fascism is disavowed as secretly female or homosexual, and the hero eventually renounces both Sally and the corruption of the coming regime. Mizejewski argues, however, that the historical and political aspects of this story are too specific--and too frightening--to explain in purely psychoanalytic terms. Instead, Divine Decadence examines how each text engages particular cultural issues and anxieties of its era, from postwar "Momism" to the Vietnam War. Sally Bowles as the symbol of "wild Weimar" or Nazi eroticism represents "history" from within the grid of many other controversial discourses, including changing theories of fascism, the story of Camp, vicissitudes of male homosexual representations and discourses, and the relationships of these issues to images of female sexuality. To Mizejewski, the Sally Bowles adaptations end up duplicating the fascist politics they strain to condemn, reproducing the homophobia, misogyny, fascination for spectacle, and emphasis of sexual difference that characterized German fascism. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Berlin stories

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ISBN 13 : 9780811200707
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Berlin stories written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Making of Cabaret

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199831297
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis The Making of Cabaret by : Keith Garebian

Download or read book The Making of Cabaret written by Keith Garebian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical. With nearly 40 illustrations, full cast credits, and a bibliography, The Making of Cabaret will appeal to musical theatre aficionados, theatre specialists, and students and performers of musical theatre.

The Last of Mr. Norris

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis The Last of Mr. Norris by : Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood

Download or read book The Last of Mr. Norris written by Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Is Memorial Device

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571330843
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis This Is Memorial Device by : David Keenan

Download or read book This Is Memorial Device written by David Keenan and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHSHORTLISTED FOR THE COLLYER BRISTOW PRIZE This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of Lanarkshire in the west of Scotland in the late 1970s and early 80s as they were temporarily transformed by the endless possibilities that came out of the freefall from punk rock. It follows a cast of misfits, drop-outs, small town visionaries and would-be artists and musicians through a period of time where anything seemed possible, a moment where art and the demands it made were as serious as your life. At its core is the story of Memorial Device, a mythic post-punk group that could have gone all the way were it not for the visionary excess and uncompromising bloody-minded belief that served to confirm them as underground legends. Written in a series of hallucinatory first-person eye-witness accounts that capture the prosaic madness of the time and place, heady with the magic of youth recalled, This Is Memorial Device combines the formal experimentation of David Foster Wallace at his peak circa Brief Interviews With Hideous Men with moments of delirious psychedelic modernism, laugh out loud bathos and tender poignancy.

Flora, the Red Menace

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Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573681837
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)

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Book Synopsis Flora, the Red Menace by : John Kander

Download or read book Flora, the Red Menace written by John Kander and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new interpretation of the l965 Broadway musical"--Cover, p. 3.

Blood Brothers

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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517059
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Blood Brothers by : Ernst Haffner

Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Ernst Haffner and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty. Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner’s story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society.

Christopher and His Kind

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466853298
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Christopher and His Kind written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life—from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels—and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret. What most impressed the first readers of this memoir, however, was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains one of Isherwood's greatest achievements.

All the Conspirators

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222616
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book All the Conspirators written by Christopher Isherwood and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: “All the Conspirators records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls ‘the great war between the old and young.’ And what a war it was!” in many ways this novel (like the classic Berlin Stories) is a period piece growing out of a particular historical situation—clashes between parents and children with all their passionate moral struggles. Isherwood’s vivid portrayal of an older generation trying to hold on while a younger generation tries to wrench free still resonates and disarms.

Black Deutschland

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374113815
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Deutschland by : Darryl Pinckney

Download or read book Black Deutschland written by Darryl Pinckney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intoxicating, provocative novel of appetite, identity, and self-construction, Darryl Pinckney's Black Deutschland tells the story of an outsider, trapped between a painful past and a tenebrous future, in Europe's brightest and darkest city. Jed—young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago—flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America. But history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance. Whether it's the judgment of the cousin he grew up with and her husband's bourgeois German family, the lure of white wine in a down-and-out bar, a gang of racists looking for a brawl, or the ravaged visage of Rock Hudson flashing behind the face of every white boy he desperately longs for, the past never stays past even in faraway Berlin. In the age of Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, he clambers toward some semblance of adulthood amid the outcasts and expats, intellectuals and artists, queers and misfits. And, on occasion, the city keeps its Isherwood promises and the boy he kisses, incredibly, kisses him back.

Cabaret

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Publisher : Newmarket Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557043832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Cabaret by : Joe Masteroff

Download or read book Cabaret written by Joe Masteroff and published by Newmarket Press. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four 1998 Tony Awards given to the Roundabout Theatre's production of Cabaret add to the eight Tonys the musical won in 1966 and the eight Oscars the film version garnered in 1972. Surely one of the most acclaimed and beloved plays of all time, this modern classic is honored for the first time in a lavishly illustrated book. Here is the complete musical book by Joe Masteroff and all the words of the songs written by John Kander and Fred Ebb. It is illustrated with more than 100 photographs and drawings (including 74 in full color) of the original cast of the Roundabout 's smash Broadway production by Joan Marcus, never-before- published backstage photographs by Rivka Katvan, and archival photos of past productions. The accompanying text explores the evolution of the play in all its incarnations, from the 1930 stories of Christopher Isherwood to two films and three stage adaptations. Here are all the fantastic artists who have brought this play to life: Julie Harris (the original Sally Bowles), Joel Grey, Liza Minnelli, Natasha Richardson, Alan Cumming, Ron Rifkin, and directors Hal Prince, Bob Fosse, Sam Mendes, and Rob Marshall. Also featured are original drawings by costume designer William Ivey Long and set designer Robert Brill. For theatre lovers and film fans, for those who've seen the play and those who haven't, this book is an exclusive insider's glimpse into a stage and film phenomenon, one of the most astonishing artistic achievements of our time.

The Berlin Novels

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448113385
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Berlin Novels written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully conveys an ironic political parable. GOODBYE TO BERLIN The inspiration for the film Cabaret and for the play I Am a Camera, this novel remains one of the most powerful of the century, a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror. Told in a series of wry, detached and impressionistic vignettes, it is an unforgettable portrait of bohemian Berlin, a city and a world on the very brink of ruin.

Mr Norris Changes Trains

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)

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Before the Deluge

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060926791
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Before the Deluge by : Otto Friedrich

Download or read book Before the Deluge written by Otto Friedrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-10-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.