The films of Edgar G. Ulmer / Bernd Herzogenrath [editor].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ulmer, Edgar G. (Edgar George), 1904-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Ulmer, Edgar G.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays pays tribute to director Edgar Ulmer, the so-called 'King of Poverty Row,' whose classic works include The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945). This volume also includes an interview with Ulmer's wife Shirley, as well as the first English translation of an interview with Ulmer conducted in 1965.

Contents:

Foreword / Arianné Ulmer Cipes

Preface: Out of nothing / Peter Bogdanovich

Introduction. Necessary detours: putting the Ulmer back into ulmermouc / Bernd Herzogenrath

Permanent vacation: home and homelessness in the life and work of Edgar G. Ulmer / Noah Isenberg

The search for community / John Belton

On the graveyards of Europe: the horror of modernism in The black cat / Herbert Schwaab

From nine to nine / DJ Turner

Exile on 125th Street: Germans, Jews, and Africans: Americans in Moon over Harlem / Jonathan Skolnik

Forging the new Jew: Ulmer's Yiddish films / Vincent Brook

When you get to the fork, take it: from Ulmer's Yiddish cinema to Woody Allen / Miriam Strube

A world destroyed by gold: shared allegories of capital in Wagner's Ring and Ulmer's Isle of forgotten sins / Andrew Repasky McElhinney

Ulmer and the noir femme fatale / Alena Smieskova

Detour's detour / David Kalat

Fantasy and failure in Strange illusion / Hugh S. Manon

The naked filmmaker / Bill Krohn

The political and ideological sub-texts of The naked dawn / Reynold Humphries

A grave New world: cast and crew on the making of Beyond the time barrier / Robert Skotak

Invisibility and insight: the unerasable trace of The amazing transparent man / Alec Charles

An interview with Shirley Ulmer / Tom Weaver

Karloff, Lugosi, Browning, and Whale / Edgar G. Ulmer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography (p. 293-311) and indexes.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-52116-0

9786612521164

0-8108-6736-2

OCLC:

434042290