With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film
InstituteOCOs 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 (r)migr(r) 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."
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