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Gerd Gemünden - Foreign Affair - 9781845454180 - V9781845454180
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Foreign Affair

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Description for Foreign Affair Hardback. With six Academy Awards, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish emigre from Central Europe? This work projects Wilder as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture. Series: Film Europa. Num Pages: 36 ills. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
Series
Film Europa
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845454180
SKU
V9781845454180
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Ref
99-15

About Gerd Gemünden
Gerd Gemünden 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 ... Read more

Reviews for Foreign Affair
“…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 ... Read more

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