A Foreign Affair : Billy Wilder's American Films / Gerd Gemünden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gemünden, Gerd, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

System Details:

text file

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 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100274

ISBN:

9781785334757

OCLC:

961893545

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access