Foreword / Arianné Ulmer Cipes
Preface: Out of nothing / Peter Bogdanovich

Introduction. Necessary detours: putting the Ulmer back into ulmermouc / Bernd Herzogenrath
Permanent vacation: home and homelessness in the life and work of Edgar G. Ulmer / Noah Isenberg
The search for community / John Belton
On the graveyards of Europe: the horror of modernism in The black cat / Herbert Schwaab
From nine to nine / DJ Turner
Exile on 125th Street: Germans, Jews, and Africans: Americans in Moon over Harlem / Jonathan Skolnik
Forging the new Jew: Ulmer's Yiddish films / Vincent Brook
When you get to the fork, take it: from Ulmer's Yiddish cinema to Woody Allen / Miriam Strube
A world destroyed by gold: shared allegories of capital in Wagner's Ring and Ulmer's Isle of forgotten sins / Andrew Repasky McElhinney
Ulmer and the noir femme fatale / Alena Smieskova
Detour's detour / David Kalat
Fantasy and failure in Strange illusion / Hugh S. Manon
The naked filmmaker / Bill Krohn
The political and ideological sub-texts of The naked dawn / Reynold Humphries
A grave New world: cast and crew on the making of Beyond the time barrier / Robert Skotak
Invisibility and insight: the unerasable trace of The amazing transparent man / Alec Charles
An interview with Shirley Ulmer / Tom Weaver
Karloff, Lugosi, Browning, and Whale / Edgar G. Ulmer.