..".provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy
Wilder's American films as the product of transnational cultural
exchange." . Monatshefte
"Gemunden'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 trump, because everything one writes
about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor.
Gerd Gemunden, however, achieves a small miracle: his A Foreign
Affair is a highly readable yet serious critical study that reveals
Wilder, the alleged cynic, as the moralist he really was." . Volker
Schlondorff
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 emigre 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.
Gerd Gemunden 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 anthology of critical writings on Marlene Dietrich.
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