The films of Edgar G. Ulmer
By: Bernd Herzogenrath [editor].
Contributors: Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964-
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780810867000; 9780810867369
Subjects: Ulmer, Edgar G. -- 1904-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Arianné Ulmer Cipes; title: Preface: Out of nothing / Peter Bogdanovich; title: Introduction. Necessary detours: putting the Ulmer back into ulmermouc / Bernd Herzogenrath; title: Permanent vacation: home and homelessness in the life and work of Edgar G. Ulmer / Noah Isenberg; title: The search for community / John Belton; title: On the graveyards of Europe: the horror of modernism in The black cat / Herbert Schwaab; title: From nine to nine / DJ Turner; title: Exile on 125th Street: Germans, Jews, and Africans: Americans in Moon over Harlem / Jonathan Skolnik; title: Forging the "new Jew": Ulmer's Yiddish films / Vincent Brook; title: When you get to the fork, take it: from Ulmer's Yiddish cinema to Woody Allen / Miriam Strube; title: A world destroyed by gold: shared allegories of capital in Wagner's Ring and Ulmer's Isle of forgotten sins / Andrew Repasky McElhinney; title: Ulmer and the noir femme fatale / Alena Smieskova; title: Detour's detour / David Kalat; title: Fantasy and failure in Strange illusion / Hugh S. Manon; title: The naked filmmaker / Bill Krohn; title: The political and ideological sub-texts of The naked dawn / Reynold Humphries; title: A grave New world: cast and crew on the making of Beyond the time barrier / Robert Skotak; title: Invisibility and insight: the unerasable trace of The amazing transparent man / Alec Charles; title: An interview with Shirley Ulmer / Tom Weaver; title: Karloff, Lugosi, Browning, and Whale / Edgar G. Ulmer.