Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker
Title | Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker PDF eBook |
Author | Karen McNally |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0786485205 |
Billy Wilder's work remains a masterful combination of incisive social commentary, skilled writing and directing, and unashamed entertainment value. One of Hollywood's foremost emigre filmmakers, Wilder holds a key position in film history via films that represent a complex reflection of his European roots and American cultural influences. This wide-ranging collection of essays by an international group of scholars examines the significance of Wilder's filmmaking from a variety of original perspectives. Engaging with issues of genre, industry, representation and national culture, the volume provides fresh insights into Wilder's films and opens up his work to further exploration.
Billy Wilder, American Film Realist
Title | Billy Wilder, American Film Realist PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Armstrong |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1476606536 |
The films of Billy Wilder, from Double Indemnity to Some Like It Hot, are American classics created by a brilliant Austrian in love with his newfound country. This is a re-examination of the key American films of Wilder, often challenging previous readings of his filmmaking style and personality, emphasizing the pop-cultural, film-historical, and sociohistorical content of well known films like Sunset Boulevard and less frequently remembered ones, like The Fortune Cookie. The book interprets Wilder as more than the "cocky little Viennese" or "closet Romantic" stereotypes often attached to him. Here the student will find provocative analysis and the enthusiast will find evocative commentary on one of the most important figures in American film. Photographs add to the text, and a complete filmography and bibliography are also included. Fully indexed.
Billy Wilder
Title | Billy Wilder PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Hopp |
Publisher | Taschen |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9783822815953 |
This biography of director Billy Wilder (""Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot"") contains movie posters, a bibliography and a complete filmography.
Billy Wilder on Assignment
Title | Billy Wilder on Assignment PDF eBook |
Author | Billy Wilder |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0691194947 |
"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"--
Conversations with Wilder
Title | Conversations with Wilder PDF eBook |
Author | Cameron Crowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | 9780571203864 |
The renowned director talks to Cameron Crowe about 30 years at the very heart of Hollywood. Wilder's distinct voice provides a fascinating insider's view of the film industry past and present.
A Foreign Affair
Title | A Foreign Affair PDF eBook |
Author | Gerd Gemünden |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2008-04-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0857450662 |
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.
Billy Wilder
Title | Billy Wilder PDF eBook |
Author | Billy Wilder |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781578064441 |
In-depth profiles, spirited Q & A's, and on-the-set glimpses of the director at work