The films of Edgar G. Ulmer
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xxvii, 326 p.)
9780810867369, 9781282521162, 9786612521164, 0810867362, 1282521160, 6612521163
1240829893
Print version:
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
English