Film Studies Lecture Noah Isenberg Back in Black: The Place of Edgar G. Ulmer in the Pantheon of Film Noir

Noah Isenberg, who teaches film and literary studies at the New School in New York, talks about the renewed interest in, and growing reputation of, filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer as a director of classic film noir (from Detour to Ruthless and beyond).

His talk explores how Ulmer's career as a B director, once relegated to the dustbin of film history, has recently been resuscitated by the posthumous success of his noir productions and the efforts to preserve them.

Cosponsored by Ohio State's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Film Studies Program and the Wexner Center.

Continue reading for more about Noah Isenberg. Noah Isenberg is associate professor of literary studies at the New School, where he teaches literature, film, and intellectual history. He is the author, most recently, of Detour (British Film Institute, 2008) and the editor of Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era (Columbia University Press, 2009). His other books include Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism (University of Nebraska Press, 1999; 2nd ed. 2008) and the edition/translation of Arnold Zweig’s work of 1920, The Face of East European Jewry (University of California Press, 2004). Isenberg has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Austrian Fulbright Commission, the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His writing has appeared in such publications as Cinema Journal, New German Critique, Raritan, Bookforum, the Nation, the Threepenny Review, Partisan Review, Salmagundi, Dissent, the New Republic, and the New York Times.