Edgar G. Ulmer (eBook)

A Filmmaker at the Margins

Noah Isenberg (Autor)

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2014
362 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95717-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.1.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
• Reihe/Serie: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: 20th century directors • 20th century film history • american films • austrian american • austrian directors • Austro-Hungarian Jewish director • auteur theory • b movies • Detour • Directors • eclectic films • émigré director • emigre directors • European transplants • Film • film criticism • film director • Film History • Filmmaker • Film noir • genre films • german directors • history of American and European cinema • Hollywood • Hollywood B movies • hollywood career • horror films • jewish film directors • low budget productions • minority audience • Movies • Noir • people on sunday • performing arts • Personal life • ruthless • sci fi films • Studio Era • The Black Cat • unconventional
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95717-2 / 0520957172
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95717-6 / 9780520957176