Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) EuroArts Music International

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Infobase, film distributor.

EuroArts Music International GmbH

Series:

A Film and Its Era

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Mass media--Study and teaching.

Mass media.

Genre:

Internet videos

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 7 sec)) sound, color

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2018

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : EuroArts Music International, [2008]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned

System Details:

Streaming video file

System requirements: FOD playback platform

video file

Summary:

Billy Wilder filmed Some Like It Hot in 1958-a movie that is at once a satire of the United States and its imitators, a burlesque parody, a thriller, a musical comedy filmed in black and white, and an audacious look at the confusion of sexes and sentiments. Honored as the best comedy of all time. By the end of the 1950s, America-whose insolent prosperity combined with flagging morale-plays the Cold War at home with McCarthyism and the beginning of the fight against racial segregation. The brutal expansion of television will threaten cinema and mark the beginning of the end of Hollywood's golden age. Billy Wilder, a Viennese Jew who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, practices iconoclastic realism and devastating clichés. He chooses Marilyn Monroe, convinced that in spite of her anxiety and her drug abuse, she is "a veritable genius as a comic actress"

Contents:

"Some Like It Hot": Plot (2:27); Wilder's Background (2:15); "Some Like it Hot": Development (2:29); 1950s Time Period (3:46); Film Casting (4:29); Farce, Film Noir, and Musical Comedy (2:28); Production Difficulties (3:21); Men Portraying Women (3:04); Hays Code (2:50); Advent of Color Television (3:12); Shooting in San Diego (6:30); Warner's Doubling (3:40); Wilder's Directing Style (6:10); "Some Like it Hot": Critical Reception (4:44); Credits: Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) (0:30);

Notes:

Originally released by EuroArts Music International, 2008

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 24, 2018

Title from distributor's description

OCLC:

1089954660

Publisher Number:

162978 Infobase

[162957]s Infobase

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license