1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790539303321

Autore

Isenberg Noah William

Titolo

Edgar G. Ulmer : a filmmaker at the margins / / Noah Isenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-520-95717-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 pages)

Collana

Weimar and now: German cultural criticism

Classificazione

AP 51400

Disciplina

791.43/0233092

B

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Traces of a Viennese youth -- Toward a cinema at the margins -- Hollywood horror -- Songs of exile -- Capra of PRC -- Back in black -- Independence days -- Postscript.

Sommario/riassunto

Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German émigré directors-Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Robert Siodmak. Despite early work with Max Reinhardt and F. W. Murnau, his auspicious debut with Siodmak on their celebrated Weimar classic People on Sunday, and the success of films like Detour and Ruthless, Ulmer spent most of his career as an itinerant filmmaker earning modest paychecks for films that have either been overlooked or forgotten. In this fascinating and well-researched account of a career spent on the margins of Hollywood, Noah Isenberg provides the little-known details of Ulmer's personal life and a thorough analysis of his wide-ranging, eclectic films-features aimed at minority audiences, horror and sci-fi flicks, genre pictures made in the U.S. and abroad. Isenberg shows that Ulmer's unconventional path was in many ways more typical than that of his more famous colleagues. As he follows the twists and turns of Ulmer's fortunes, Isenberg also conveys a new understanding of low-budget filmmaking in the studio era and beyond.  



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789720903321

Autore

Greenwood Andrea <1961->

Titolo

An introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist traditions / / Andrea Greenwood, Mark W. Harris [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-12404-8

1-107-22603-1

1-283-29829-5

9786613298294

1-139-12208-8

0-511-84333-X

1-139-11634-7

1-139-12700-4

1-139-11417-4

1-139-11198-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Introduction to religion

Classificazione

REL000000

Disciplina

230/.9132

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Beginnings -- Great Britain -- From relevation to reason: America 1630-1833 -- From reason to intuition to freedom: USA 1833-1894 -- A religion for one world -- Congregational polity -- Worship -- Sources of faith -- Science and ecology -- Architecture, art, and music -- Education and social justice -- Current issues, new directions.

Sommario/riassunto

How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the Unitarianism of New England is indigenous and the point from which the religion spread.



Relationships between Polish radicals and the English Dissenters existed and the English radicals profoundly influenced the Unitarianism of the nascent United States. Greenwood and Harris also explore the US identity as Unitarian Universalist since a 1961 merger and its current relationship to international congregations, particularly in the context of twentieth-century expansion into Asia.