Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row

Introduction -- Gary D. RhodesI: Texts and Contexts1. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Low-End Independent FilmmakerPar Excellence -- Yannis Tzioumakis2. Edgar G. Ulmer: The Godfather of Sexploitation? -- Chris Justice3. At the Border: Edgar G. Ulmer's The Singing Blacksmith (1938) and Cossacks in Exile (1939) -- Claudia PummerII: Film Noir4. Dead Fathers and Other Detours: Ulmer's Noir -- Scott Loren5. See Spot: The Parametric Film Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer -- Hugh S. Manon6. Even the Pictures Lie: The Unreliable Narrator in the Film Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer -- Stephen Broomer7. Edgar G. Ulmer's Homicidal Noirs: Psychosis and Possession in Strange Illusion, The Strange Woman, and Bluebeard -- Marlisa Santos8. All Wrong Turns: Tracking Subjectivity in Detour (1945) -- Phillip Sipiora9. Masculinity and Masochism in Detour (1945) -- Reynold HumphriesIII: Individual Films10. Puppets and Painting: Authorship and Artistry in Edgar G. Ulmer's Bluebeard -- Steffen Hantke11. Beyond Citizen Kane: Ruthless as Radical Psychobiography -- Tony Williams12. "The Gateway to America": Assimilation and Art in Carnegie Hall (1947) -- Tony Tracy13. Meeting The Man From Planet X (1951) -- Graeme Harper14. Nothing to Hyde: Reading The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) -- Robert Singer15. Murder, Family, and Weird Science:The Amazing Transparent Man -- David J. Hogan16. "A Sword and Sandal Gone Screwy" or, Edgar G. Ulmer's Journey to the Lost City--L'Atlantide -- Kevin HeffernanIV: Case Study--The Black Cat (1934)17. Bauhaus of Horrors: Edgar G. Ulmer and The Black Cat -- Alison Peirse18. The Devil's Contract: The Satisfaction of Self-Destruction in Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat -- Dion Tubrett19 "Tremonstrous" Hopes and "Oke" Results: The 1934 Reception of The Black Cat -- Gary D. Rhodes

As always with Mr. Rhodes books, the research is just incredible, and precise. If you have read any of Mr. Rhodes books you will know what I am talking about. If you are a fan of Mr. Ulmer and his works, then get a copy of this book now, you will not be dissapointed.