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Billy Wilder - Dancing on the Edge (Hardcover)
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Billy Wilder - Dancing on the Edge (Hardcover)
Series: Film and Culture Series
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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 as an outsider. His worldview
was shaped by his background in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and
work as a journalist in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power, and
his perspective as a Jewish refugee from Nazism lent his films a
sense of the peril that could engulf any society. In this critical
study, Joseph McBride offers new ways to understand Wilder's work,
stretching from his days as a reporter and screenwriter in Europe
to his distinguished as well as forgotten films as a Hollywood
writer and his celebrated work as a writer-director. In contrast to
the widespread view of Wilder as a hardened cynic, McBride reveals
him to be a disappointed romantic. Wilder's experiences as an exile
led him to mask his sensitivity beneath a veneer of wisecracking
that made him a celebrated caustic wit. Amid the satirical barbs
and exposure of social hypocrisies, Wilder's films are marked by
intense compassion and a profound understanding of the human
condition. Mixing biographical insight with in-depth analysis of
films from throughout Wilder's career as a screenwriter and
director of comedy and drama, and drawing on McBride's interviews
with the director and his collaborators, this book casts new light
on the full range of Wilder's rich, complex, and distinctive
vision.
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