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The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer
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2009
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Considered the 'King of Poverty Row,' Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972) was an auteur of B productions. A filmmaker with an individual voice, Ulmer made independent movies before that category even existed. From his early productions like The Black Cat (1934) and Yiddish cinema of the late 1930s to his final films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Ulmer created enduring works within the confines of economic constraints. Almost forgotten, Ulmer was rediscovered first in the 1950s by the French critics of the Cahiers du Cinema and then in the early 1970s by young American directors, notably Peter Bogdanovich. But who was Edgar G. Ulmer? The essays in this anthology attempt to shed some light on the director and the films he created_films that are great possibly because of, rather than despite, the many restrictions Ulmer endured to make them. In The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer, Bernd Herzogenrath has assembled a collection of essays that pay tribute to Ulmer's work and focus not only on his well-known films, including Detour, but also on rare gems such as From Nine to Nine and Strange Illusion. In addition to in-depth analyses of Ulmer's work, this volume also features an interview with Ulmer's wife and an interview Ulmer gave in 1965, in which he comments on actors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, as well as fellow directors Tod Browning and James Whale.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-6700-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-6736-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
326
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Foreword: Out of Nothing No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1. Permanent Vacation No access Pages 1 - 20
2. The Search for Community No access Pages 21 - 38
3. On the Graveyards of Europe No access Pages 39 - 52
4. From Nine to Nine No access Pages 53 - 60
5. Exile on 125th Street No access Pages 61 - 70
6. Forging the “New Jew” No access Pages 71 - 86
7. When You Get to the Fork, Take It No access Pages 87 - 108
8. A World Destroyed by Gold No access Pages 109 - 124
9. Ulmer and the Noir Femme Fatale No access Pages 125 - 136
10. Detour’s Detour No access Pages 137 - 158
11. Fantasy and Failure in Strange Illusion No access Pages 159 - 174
12. The Naked Filmmaker No access Pages 175 - 192
13. The Political and Ideological Subtexts of The Naked Dawn No access Pages 193 - 204
14. A Grave New World No access Pages 205 - 244
15. Invisibility and Insight No access Pages 245 - 264
16. An Interview with Shirley Ulmer No access Pages 265 - 288
17. Karloff, Lugosi, Browning, and Whale No access Pages 289 - 292
Filmography No access Pages 293 - 312
Name Index No access Pages 313 - 316
Title Index No access Pages 317 - 318
Subject Index No access Pages 319 - 320
About the Contributors No access Pages 321 - 326
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