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Film Europa Ser.: A Foreign Affair : Billy Wilder's American Films by Gerd Gemünden and Gerd Gemünden (2008, Trade Paperback)

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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.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1845454197
ISBN-13
9781845454197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Gerd Gemünden
Publication Name
Foreign Affair : Billy Wilder's American Films
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Film Europa Ser.
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
206 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz

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Series Volume Number
5
Lc Classification Number
Pn1998.3.W56 G47
Reviews
"...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilder's American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange." · Monatshefte "Gemünden's vital decoding of Wilder's translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come." · Austrian Studies Newsletter "Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor. Gerd Gemünden, however, achieves a small miracle: his A Foreign Affair is a highly readable yet serious critical study that reveals Wilder, the alleged cynic, as the moralist he really was." · Volker Schlöndorff, "...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilder's American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange." Monatshefte "Gemnden's vital decoding of Wilder's translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come." Austrian Studies Newsletter "Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor. Gerd Gemnden, however, achieves a small miracle: his A Foreign Affair is a highly readable yet serious critical study that reveals Wilder, the alleged cynic, as the moralist he really was." Volker Schlndorff, "...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilder's American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange." Monatshefte "Gemnden's vital decoding of Wilder's translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come." Austrian Studies Newsletter "Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor. Gerd Gemnden, however, achieves a small miracle: his A Foreign Affair is a highly readable yet serious critical study that reveals Wilder, the alleged cynic, as the moralist he really was." Volker Schlndorff
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1. An Accented Cinema Chapter 2. The Insurance Man Always Rings Twice: Double Indemnity (1944) Chapter 3. In the Ruins of Berlins: A Foreign Affair (1948) Chapter 4. Ghosting Hollywood: Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Fedora (1978) Chapter 5. All Dressed Up and Running Wild: Some Like It Hot (1959) Chapter 6. Being a Mensch in the Administered World: The Apartment (1960) Chapter 7. In the Closet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Chronology Filmography Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Europe / Germany, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2008-007348
Dewey Decimal
791.430233092
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Performing Arts

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