Brecht in Hollywood: Hangmen Also Die and the Anti-Nazi Film

Abstract

Working as a freelancer, Brecht thought he could work Hollywood so that itwould provide him with both a living and a platform for his ideas. But only oneof his more than screenplays made it into production—the ill-fated collaborationwith Fritz Lang, Hangmen Also Die. Die beste Schule für Dialektik ist die Emigration. Die schrfsten Dialektiker sind die Flchtlinge. —Bertolt Brecht, Flüchtlingsgespräche (1967, 14:1462)

The Absurdist Doctrine of Jojo Rabbit and Absurdism in Personalized Characters

“…Hitler's image is exactly the product of the Nazi thought in Jojo's mind, is the Nazi German ideology, is the product of the German state machine. In the film, the director overcomes the representative of Hitler by describing the kindness of human nature, showing that the Nazi thought is an anti-human and irrational thought [8,9].…”