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1 online resource (206 pages). |
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| Series |
Film Europa |
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Film Europa.
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| Contents |
An accented cinema -- The insurance man always rings twice : Double indemnity (1944) -- In the ruins of Berlin : A foreign affair (1948) -- Ghosting Hollywood : Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Fedora (1978) -- All dressed up and running wild : Some like it hot (1959) -- Being a mensch in the administered world : The apartment (1960) -- In the closet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : The private life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). |
| Summary |
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. |
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Print version record. |
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Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpV7qPDrPH3Fvkj4BKw4q
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
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Film.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Gemünden, Gerd. A Foreign Affair : Billy Wilder's American Films. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2011 9781845454197 |
| ISBN |
9780857450661 (electronic bk.) |
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9781785334757 |
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1785334751 |
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0857450662 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000060958706 |
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GBVCP 1008659185 |
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