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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454587003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-52116-0

9786612521164

0-8108-6736-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HerzogenrathBernd <1964->

Disciplina

791.4302/32092

B

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / ArianneĢ 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.