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Detour
Noah Isenberg
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Description for Detour
Paperback. Noah Isenberg's study of the film noir classic Detour draws on archival sources, unpublished letters and interviews to provide an illuminating account of its production history, its critical reception, its afterlife (including various remakes) and the different ways in which the film has been understood since its release. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 105 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 200.
Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film
buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) has recently earned
a new wave of recognition. In the words of film critic David Thomson, it is
simply 'beyond remarkable.' The only B-picture to make it into the National
Film Registry of the Library of Congress, Detour has outrun its fate as the
bastard child of one of Hollywood's lowliest studios. Ulmer's film follows, in
flashback, the journey of Al Roberts (Tom Neal), a pianist hitching from New
York ... Read more
Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film
buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) has recently earned
a new wave of recognition. In the words of film critic David Thomson, it is
simply 'beyond remarkable.' The only B-picture to make it into the National
Film Registry of the Library of Congress, Detour has outrun its fate as the
bastard child of one of Hollywood's lowliest studios. Ulmer's film follows, in
flashback, the journey of Al Roberts (Tom Neal), a pianist hitching from New
York ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
105
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844572397
SKU
V9781844572397
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About Noah Isenberg
NOAH ISENBERG is Associate Professor of University Humanities at the New School in New York City, USA. He is the author of Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism (1999) and editor of Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era (2008).
Reviews for Detour
'Noah Isenberg does a remarkable job of sifting through decades-old interviews and archive material to bring you the low-down.' Empire 'The BFI Film Classics companion to everyone's favourite B noir is compact but stocked with years of research. Professor Isenberg acts as our Virgil as we squirm through the stations of Edgar Ulmer's vision of Hell. Given the professor's knowledge ... Read more