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oapen-20.500.12657-456192023-06-05T13:08:32Z A Foreign Affair Gemünden, Gerd Media and Communications Billy Wilder Fedora (operating system) Limousin dialect Sherlock Holmes bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema 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. 2017-04-01 23:55:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T13:33:17Z 2020-04-01T13:33:17Z 2008-04-01 book 629150 OCN: 961893545 9781785334757 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45619 eng Film Europa application/pdf n/a 629150.pdf Berghahn Books Berghahn Books 10.26530/oapen_629150 100274 10.26530/oapen_629150 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781785334757 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Berghahn Books 100274 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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