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Billy Wilder on assignment : dispatches from Weimar Berlin and interwar Vienna / edited by Noah Isenberg ; translated by Shelley Frisch.
LIBRA PN4725 .W54 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Articles. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.
- Journalism.
- Journalism--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century.
- Theater--Reviews.
- Theater.
- History.
- Austria--Vienna.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Motion pictures--Reviews.
- Motion pictures.
- Berlin (Germany)--Social life and customs.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Vienna (Austria)--Social life and customs.
- Vienna (Austria).
- Berlin (Germany)--History--1918-1945.
- Vienna (Austria)--History--1918-.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Reviews.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Before Billy Wilder (1906-2002) left Europe for the United States in 1934 and became a filmmaker, he worked as a newspaper reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. This book, edited and introduced by Noah Isenberg and translated by Shelley Frisch, collects about 65 articles Wilder published in Austrian and German newspapers in the 1920s. The collection includes reported pieces on urban life, from a first-person account of Wilder's stint as a taxi dancer to an article about street sweepers; profiles of writers, movie stars and poker players; and dispatches from the international film scene, from reviews to interviews with such figures as Charlie Chaplin and Erich von Stroheim. Isenberg provides an introduction that gives biographical details and places the writings in context, emphasizing their historical moment and their connections to Wilder's later career"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A roving reporter, a tale of two cities, and the making of Billy Wilder
- Extra, extra! Reportage, opinion pieces, and features from real life
- Portraits of extraordinary and ordinary people
- Film and theater reviews.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Translated from the German.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wilder, Samuel, 1906-2002. Billy Wilder on assignment
- ISBN:
- 9780691194943
- 0691194947
- OCLC:
- 1201299102
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