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03280aam a2200505 i 4500 001 58E5A10ADCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210321t20212021nyua bq 001 0beng 010 $a 2021004923 020 $a 023120146X 020 $a 9780231201469 035 $a (OCoLC)1245247530 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d BDX $d J9U $d TP7 $d OCLCO $d NYP $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1998.3.W56 $b M33 2021 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a McBride, Joseph, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Billy Wilder : $b dancing on the edge / $c Joseph McBride. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 658 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 490 1 $a Film and culture 520 $a "From Some Like it Hot and The Apartment to Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder directed some of Hollywood's most iconic movies. However, the roots of Wilder's directorial vision and worldview were very much shaped by his Austrian background and experiences working as a journalist in Berlin at the dawn of Hitler's rise to power. Though a fixture in Hollywood, Wilder always felt an outsider and his perspective as an exiled Jew provided his films with a distinct view of the flaws and possibilities of American and European society. In Billy Wilder and the Phantoms of the Past, Joseph McBride argues, that the director was a stubborn romanticist, whose films mixed critique and compassion. Despite their satirical nature and exposure of hypocrisies of all kinds, Wilder's films were skeptical of cynicism and interested in how people overcome their disillusionment. Mixing biography with analysis of Wilder's films, including some of the later more forgotten works, Joseph McBride explains how Billy Wilder became Billy Wilder"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index. 505 0 $a AuslaÌndisch -- "A keen observer" -- "Film, that's no profession for adults" -- "I was not in the right country" -- Brackettandwilder . . . and Lubitsch -- Dancing on the edge -- "Not a funnyman but a moralist" -- "I am no longer afraid" -- "Tap-dancing on the grave of Hollywood". 600 10 $a Wilder, Billy, $d 1906-2002. 600 17 $a Wilder, Billy, $d 1906-2002. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00047437 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Motion picture producers and directors $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Austrians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jews $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Austrians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821579 650 7 $a Jews. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00983135 650 7 $a Motion picture producers and directors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027225 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Film and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011730.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=58E5A10ADCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search