Billy Wilder, movie-maker : critical essays on the films
"This wide-ranging collection of essays by an international group of scholars examines the significance of Wilder's filmmaking from a variety of original perspectives. Engaging with issues of genre, industry, representation and national culture, the volume provides fresh insights into Wilder's films and opens up his work to further exploration"--Provided by publisher
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
9780786485208, 0786485205
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Introduction / Karen McNally
Matters of genre. What exposure is the world? the desert noir of Ace in the hole / Lance Duerfahrd
An unconventional war film: death, disguise and deception in Five graves to Cairo / Dale M. Pollock
Syncope, syncopation: musical hommages to Europe / Katherine Arens
Realistic horror: film noir and the 1940s horror cycle / Mark Jancovich
Representation, image and identity. Shame and the single girl: reviving Fran and falling for Baxter in The apartment / Alison R. Hoffman
"Have they forgotten what a star looks like?" image and theme with Dino, Cagney and Fedora / Karen McNally
Phenomenological masking: complications of identity in Double indemnity / Phillip Sipiora
Production and reception. "A small, effective organization": the Mirisch Company, the package-unit system, and the production of Some like it hot / Paul Kerr
"Esthetically as well as morally repulsive": Kiss me, stupid, "Bilious Billy," and the Battle Of Middlebrow taste / Ken Feil
Censorship, negotiation and transgressive cinema: Double indemnity, Some like it hot and other controversial movies in the United States and Europe / Daniel Biltereyst
Europe, America and beyond. "I don't have a home!" Paris interregnum in Mauvaise graine / Leila Wimmer
Palimpsest: the double vision of exile / Nancy Steffen-Fluhr
Sabrina, Hollywood and postwar internationalism / Dina Smith
Evolving modernities: formation of the urban imagination in Hindi cinema / Sunny Singh
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