Billy Wilder : : Dancing on the Edge / / Joseph McBride.
The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films—including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment—Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's greatest social satirist. Though an influential fixture in Hollywood, Wilder always saw himself...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Film and Culture Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 28 b&w figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- THE PHANTOMS OF THE PAST
- Pictures
- 1 Ausländisch
- 2 “A Keen Observer”
- 3 “Film, That’s No Profession for Adults”
- “WRITE SOME GOOD ONES”
- Pictures
- 4 “I Was Not in the Right Country”
- 5 Brackettandwilder . . . and Lubitsch
- “ISN’T IT ROMANTIC?”
- Introduction
- 6 Dancing on the Edge
- 7 “Not a Funnyman but a Moralist”
- 8 “I Am No Longer Afraid”
- 9 “Tap- Dancing on the Grave of Hollywood”
- Filmography
- Notes on Sources
- Acknowledgments and Influences
- Index
- FILM AND CULTURE