"Exile on 125th Street: African-Americans, Germans, and Jews in Moon over Harlem" by Jonathan Skolnik

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Exile on 125th Street: African-Americans, Germans, and Jews in Moon over Harlem

The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer (2009)

Jonathan Skolnik

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Abstract

An analysis of the film Moon Over Harlem (Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, 1939) focusing on issues of German-Jewish exile from Nazi Germany and race in American culture and society.

Keywords

race,
film,
cinema,
German film,
exile,
German exile,
race films,
African American,
Harlem,
Ulmer,
Black film

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities,
American Studies,
Comparative Literature,
European Languages and Societies,
Film and Media Studies,
German Language and Literature,
History,
Jewish Studies,
Modern Literature,
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies and
Critical and Cultural Studies

Publication Date

2009

Editor

Bernd Herzogenrath

ISBN

9780810867369

Citation Information

Jonathan Skolnik, "Exile on 125th Street: African-Americans, Germans, and Jews in Moon over Harlem," In Herzogenrath, Bernd. The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer. Lanham, Md: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2009. Print.