This collection of 20 essays pays homage to a filmmaker who had a reputation for delivering the most movie for the least amount of money. Edgar G. Ulmer delivered classics like The Black Cat, starring Bela Lugosi, and was nicknamed "The King of the Bs" and "The King of Poverty Row." Ulmer's stealing away the wife of a producer led to his exile from Hollywood, and working outside the studio system and with low budgets, he turned out film noir, science fiction, and ethnic films that achieved cult status and limited critical acceptance. Among the contributors are Ulmer historians Bill Krohn, Greg Mank, and Sharon Pucker Rivo. Illustrations and a filmography are included.
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Bernd Herzogenrath teaches American Literature and Culture at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Cologne in Germany. He is the author of An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster and editor of The Films of Tod Browning: Essays on the Macabre and Grotesque (McFarland 2008). Herzogenrath founded the Ulmerfest, an annual conference that takes place in Ulmer's hometown of Olomouc in the Czech Republic
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Edgar Ulmer King Of The "B's"- Biographers kings of the "ZZZZZZZ'S '',
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When you read this Acknowledgement in the front of this book quote: A big hearty "Diky" to Andrea & Dorka of Tara Fuki"
you realise that this is going to be a real tough read. As a Fan of the "B" movie and serials of the 30's 40's I found this book a huge dissapointment! Written in an essay format by various European Acedemics of European Cinema it is about as entertaining as a single english launguage student trying to read a thesis in German. Books/biographies on Edgar G Ulmer are vitually non existant and when this 'tome' was published I had looked forward to receiving and reading it. Cover art is great! pity contents are not.
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