| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages). |
| Series |
Film Europa |
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Film Europa.
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| Contents |
A Foreign Affair; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. An Accented Cinema; Chapter 2. The Insurance Man Always Rings Twice; Chapter 3. In the Ruins of Berlin; Chapter 4. Ghosting Hollywood; Chapter 5. All Dressed Up and Running Wild; Chapter 6. Being a Mensch in the Administered World; Chapter 7. In the Closet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Chronology; Filmography; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish émigré from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying contradictions where previous commentators routinely smoothed them out. Wilder emerges as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002. (OCoLC)fst00047437
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gemünden, Gerd. A Foreign Affair : Billy Wilder's American Films. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2011 9781845454197 |
| ISBN |
9780857450661 (electronic bk.) |
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0857450662 (electronic bk.) |
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