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Noah Isenberg

Biography

Noah Isenberg

Noah Isenberg is director of screen studies and professor of culture and media at The New School, the author of EDGAR G. ULMER: A Filmmaker at the Margins and editor of WEIMAR CINEMA, and the recipient of an NEH Public Scholar Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Noah Isenberg

Books by Noah Isenberg

We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie
by Noah Isenberg - Entertainment, History, Nonfiction, Performing Arts

WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE CASABLANCA is celebrated film historian Noah Isenberg’s rich account of the origins of the famed Humphrey Bogart movie, which premiered over 75 years ago. Through extensive research and interviews with filmmakers, film critics, family members of the cast and crew, and diehard fans, Isenberg reveals the myths and realities behind Casablanca’s production, exploring the transformation of the unproduced stage play into the classic screenplay, the controversial casting decisions, the battles with Production Code censors, and the effect of the war’s progress on the movie’s reception.