Edgar G. Ulmer

A Filmmaker at the Margins Volume 48
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-40964-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 384 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism

Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, often considered the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of fellow Austrian and German émigré directors like Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann, and Robert Siodmak, and spent most of his career as an itinerant filmmaker earning modest paychecks for films frequently overlooked or forgotten. In this fascinating account of a career spent on the margins of Hollywood, Noah Isenberg sheds new light on little-known details of Ulmer’s personal life and his wide-ranging, eclectic films: features aimed at minority audiences, horror and sci-fi flicks, genre pictures made in the United States and abroad. As he follows the twists and turns of Ulmer’s fortunes, Isenberg shows that Ulmer’s unconventional path was in many ways more typical than that of his more illustrious colleagues, advancing a new understanding of low-budget filmmaking in the studio era and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Isenberg, Noah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. Traces of a Viennese Youth

2. Toward a Cinema at the Margins

3. Hollywood Horror

4. Songs of Exile

5. Capra of PRC

6. Back in Black

7. Independence Days

Postscript

Filmography

Notes

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noah Isenberg is Charles Sapp Centennial Professor of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of several books, including the Los Angeles Times bestseller We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie.