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 emigre 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Berghahn Books
ISBN-13
9781845454197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95486306
Product Key Features
Book Title
A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films
Author
Gerd Gemunden
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Number of Pages
206 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
286g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gerd Gemunden
Series Title
Film Europa
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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