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
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 193 pages)
,
illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Edition:
Also issued in print and PDF version
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Film Europa 5
Series Statement:
Film Europa
Parallel Title:
Print version A Foreign Affair, Billy Wilder's American Films
DDC:
791.43023/3092
Keywords:
Motion pictures
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Motion pictures 20th century
;
Wilder, Billy 1906-2002
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Film
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Geschichte 1944-1970
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
,
In English
URL:
View this content on Open Research Library
URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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