Noah Isenberg introduces "Ruthless" by Edgar G. Ulmer

March 24, 2022

Kit Noir Film Festival
Noah Isenberg introduces "Ruthless" by Edgar G. Ulmer

Noah Isenberg is the George Christian Centennial Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author, most recently, of We’ll Always Have ‘Casablanca’: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie (W.W. Norton, 2017; Faber & Faber, 2017), which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and also named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. His other books include: Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (California, 2014), which was selected by Huffington Post for its Best Film Books of 2014; Detour (British Film Institute, 2008), a book-length study of Ulmer’s acclaimed low-budget film noir; and, as editor, Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era (Columbia, 2009), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. His current projects include a book on Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot for Norton and Faber; a short interpretive biography of Wilder for the Yale Jewish Lives series; and an edited volume of Wilder’s journalistic writing from Weimar Berlin for Princeton.

Courtesy of Columbia University School of the Arts.