A foreign affair : Billy Wilder's American films
Gerd Gemünden (Author)
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 and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture and the avant-garde, features that lead to productive and often highly original confrontations between high and low
Film Europa, v. 5
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xii, 193 pages).
9781785334757, 9780857450661, 1785334751, 0857450662
1057664982
An accented cinema
The insurance man always rings twice : Double indemnity
In the ruins of Berlin : A foreign affair
Ghosting Hollywood : Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Fedora
All dressed up and running wild : Some like it hot
Being a mensch in the administered world : The apartment
In the closet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : The private life of Sherlock Holmes
In English