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Condition
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Binding
Paperback
Product Group
Book
Book Title
A Foreign Affair
Weight
0 lbs
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9781845454197
Subject Area
Performing Arts, History
Publication Name
Foreign Affair : Billy Wilder's American Films
Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Item Length
9 in
Subject
Europe / Germany, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2008
Series
Film Europa Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.4 in
Author
Gerd Gemünden
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
206 Pages
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Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1845454197
ISBN-13
9781845454197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63456985

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
206 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Foreign Affair : Billy Wilder's American Films
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Europe / Germany, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Type
Textbook
Author
Gerd Gemünden
Subject Area
Performing Arts, History
Series
Film Europa Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-007348
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
"...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilder's American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange."   ·  Monatshefte "Gemünden's vital decoding of Wilder's translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come."   ·  Austrian Studies Newsletter "Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor. Gerd Gemünden, however, achieves a small miracle: his A Foreign Affair is a highly readable yet serious critical study that reveals Wilder, the alleged cynic, as the moralist he really was."   ·  Volker Schlöndorff, "...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilder's American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange." Monatshefte "Gemnden's vital decoding of Wilder's translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come." Austrian Studies Newsletter "Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor. Gerd Gemnden, however, achieves a small miracle: his A Foreign Affair is a highly readable yet serious critical study that reveals Wilder, the alleged cynic, as the moralist he really was." Volker Schlndorff, "...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilder's American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange."     Monatshefte "Gemnden's vital decoding of Wilder's translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come."     Austrian Studies Newsletter "Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor. Gerd Gemnden, however, achieves a small miracle: his A Foreign Affair is a highly readable yet serious critical study that reveals Wilder, the alleged cynic, as the moralist he really was."     Volker Schlndorff
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
5
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
791.430233092
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1. An Accented Cinema Chapter 2. The Insurance Man Always Rings Twice: Double Indemnity (1944) Chapter 3. In the Ruins of Berlins: A Foreign Affair (1948) Chapter 4. Ghosting Hollywood: Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Fedora (1978) Chapter 5. All Dressed Up and Running Wild: Some Like It Hot (1959) Chapter 6. Being a Mensch in the Administered World: The Apartment (1960) Chapter 7. In the Closet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Chronology Filmography Bibliography Index
Synopsis
"...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilder's American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange." - Monatshefte "Gem nden's vital decoding of Wilder's translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come." - Austrian Studies Newsletter "Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor. Gerd Gem nden, however, achieves a small miracle: his A Foreign Affair is a highly readable yet serious critical study that reveals Wilder, the alleged cynic, as the moralist he really was." - Volker Schl ndorff 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 migr 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. Gerd Gem nden is Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German Studies, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination (1998) and editor of volumes on Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Douglas Sirk, as well as an anthology of critical writings on Marlene Dietrich., 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.
LC Classification Number
PN1998.3.W56 G47

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