Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 193 pages)
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illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Edition:
Also issued in print and PDF version
ISBN:
9781785334757
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9780857450661
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1845454197
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1299777414
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9781845454197
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9781299777415
Series Statement:
Film Europa 5
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Also issued in print and PDF version.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785334757
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845454180
Additional Edition:
Print version A Foreign Affair, Billy Wilder's American Films New York : Berghahn Books
Language:
English
Keywords:
Wilder, Billy 1906-2002
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Film
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Geschichte 1944-1970
URL:
View this content on Open Research Library
URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
Author information:
Gemünden, Gerd 1959-
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