Title: Moon over Harlem : Edgar G. Ulmer, the race movies and the New Negro agenda
Source document: Brno studies in English. 2006, vol. 32, iss. 1, pp. [161]-169
Extent
[161]-169
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ISSN1211-1791
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/104086
Type: Article
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Abstract(s)
The following article examines Edgar G. Ulmer's race film Moon over Harlem. It discusses this rare film in the context of Ulmer's career but, more importantly, in the context of the phenomenon of race movies, which, in their day, provided their viewers with a much needed alternative to Hollywood's stock representations of African Americans. It also takes into account the actual situation of the Black urban population during the Great Depression and argues that the reform agenda expressed by means of its main heroes coincides with certain ideals of progressivism and the New Deal reforms and that its principal characters embody the ideal of Alain Locke's New Negro.
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[11] The Black Cat (1934) Dir. Ulmer, Edgar G.
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[13] Bluebeard (1944) Dir. Ulmer, Edgar G.
[14] Dark Manhattan (1937) Dir. Fraser, Harry L.
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[16] Exile, the (1931) Dir. Micheaux, Oscar
[17] Gone With the Wind (1939) Dir. Fleming, Victor
[18] Green Fields (1937) Dir. Ben-Ami, Jacob; Ulmer, Edgar G.
[19] Green Pastures, the (1936) Dir. Connelly Marc; Keighley, William
[20] Hallelujah (1929) Dir. Vidor, King
[21] Jezebel (1938) Dir. Wyler, William
[22] Light Ahead, the (1939) Dir. Felt, Henry; Ulmer, Edgar G.
[23] Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941) Dreifuss, Arthur
[24] Natalka Poltavka (1936) Dir. Kavaleridze, Ivan; Ulmer, Edgar G.
[25] Scarface (1932) Dir. Hawks, Howard; Rosson, Richard
[26] Singing Blacksmith, the (1938) Dir. Baratoff, Ben-Zwi; Ulmer, Edgar G.
[27] Sunday Sinners (1940) Dir. Dreifuss, Arthur
[28] Underworld (1936) Dir. Michaeux, Oscar
[29] Way Down South (1939) Dir. Vorhaus, Bernard
[2] Bogle, Donald (1994) Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: an Interpretive History of Blacks in American Film (3rd ed.). New York: The Continuum Publishing Company.
[3] Guerrero, Ed. (1993) Framing Blackness. The African American Image in Film. Philadephia: Temple University Press.
[4] Herzogenrath, Bernd (2006) 'Put the Ulmer back in Ulmermouc-Cult/ure and the King of the Bs'. In: Peprník, Michal, Sweney, Matthew, (eds) The Cult Fiction, Film and Happenings. Olomouc: Palacký University Press.
[5] Lupack, Barbara Tepa (2002). Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema: From Micheaux to Morrison. Rochester: University of Rochester Press
[6] Masood, Paula J (2003) Black City Cinema. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
[7] Pospíšil Tomáš (2003) Sambo tu již nebydlí? Obraz Afroameričanů v americkém filmu 20. století. Brno: Nadace Universitas Masarykiana, Cerm, Nauma.
[8] Rhines, Jesse Algernon (1996) Black Film/White Money. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
[9] http:www.imdb.com/ accessed on November 28, 2005.
[10] American Matchmaker, the (1940) Dir. Ulmer, Edgar G.
[11] The Black Cat (1934) Dir. Ulmer, Edgar G.
[12] Birth of a Nation (1915) Dir. Griffith, David W.
[13] Bluebeard (1944) Dir. Ulmer, Edgar G.
[14] Dark Manhattan (1937) Dir. Fraser, Harry L.
[15] Detour (1945) Dir. Ulmer, Edgar G.
[16] Exile, the (1931) Dir. Micheaux, Oscar
[17] Gone With the Wind (1939) Dir. Fleming, Victor
[18] Green Fields (1937) Dir. Ben-Ami, Jacob; Ulmer, Edgar G.
[19] Green Pastures, the (1936) Dir. Connelly Marc; Keighley, William
[20] Hallelujah (1929) Dir. Vidor, King
[21] Jezebel (1938) Dir. Wyler, William
[22] Light Ahead, the (1939) Dir. Felt, Henry; Ulmer, Edgar G.
[23] Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941) Dreifuss, Arthur
[24] Natalka Poltavka (1936) Dir. Kavaleridze, Ivan; Ulmer, Edgar G.
[25] Scarface (1932) Dir. Hawks, Howard; Rosson, Richard
[26] Singing Blacksmith, the (1938) Dir. Baratoff, Ben-Zwi; Ulmer, Edgar G.
[27] Sunday Sinners (1940) Dir. Dreifuss, Arthur
[28] Underworld (1936) Dir. Michaeux, Oscar
[29] Way Down South (1939) Dir. Vorhaus, Bernard