TY - GEN T1 - Billy Wilder : dancing on the edge T2 - Film and culture. A1 - McBride, Joseph, 1947- LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1245247402 AB - "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"-- OP - 658 CN - PN1998.3.W56 M33 2021 SN - 0231554117 SN - 9780231554114 SN - 9780231201469 KW - Wilder, Billy, : 1906-2002. KW - Wilder, Billy, : 1906-2002 KW - Motion picture producers and directors : United States : Biography. KW - Austrians : United States : Biography. KW - Jews : United States : Biography. KW - Motion pictures : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Autrichiens : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Juifs : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Cinéma : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production KW - Austrians KW - Jews KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Motion pictures KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - Biographies KW - History ER -