A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films: 5 (Film Europa): Billy Wilder's American Films: 5 (Film Europa) (Film Europa, 5)

by Gerd Gemunden (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $39.00

  With six Academy Awards, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish emigre from Central Europe? This work projects Wilder as an artist with roots in sensationalist journalism and the world of entertainment as well as with an awareness of literary culture.