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    Billy Wilder

    Joseph McBride

    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…

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    A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films

    Gerd Gemunden

    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…

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    Billy Wilder in Hollywood

    Maurice Zolotow

    BILLY WILDER IN HOLLYWOOD

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    Billy Wilder: Interviews

    In-depth profiles, spirited Q & A’s, and on-the-set glimpses of the director at work

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    Literary Readings of Billy Wilder

    Billy Wilder, hailed by most as a great filmmaker, often considered himself primarily as a writer. Yet to this day no publisher had thought fit to release literary interpretations of…

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    Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge

    Joseph McBride

    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…

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    Billy Wilder, American Film Realist

    Richard Armstrong

    This is a re-examination of the key American films of Billy Wilder, often challenging previous readings of his filmmaking style and personality, emphasizing the pop-cultural, film-historical, and sociohistorical content of…

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    Sunset Boulevard

    Billy Wilder

    Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood’s vision of itself. This title makes it possible to…

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    The Lost Weekend: The Complete Screenplay

    Billy Wilder

    Includes introduction that looks at the transformation from novel to film and examines Wilder and coauthor Charles Brackett’s methods as collaborators. This title helps readers gain important insights into the…

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    Stalag 17

    Billy Wilder

    A riveting drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, that was adapted from the Broadway play directed by Jose Ferrer in 1951.

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    A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films

    Gerd Gemunden

    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…

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    On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

    Ed Sikov

    Originally published in 1998, On Sunset Boulevard describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002). This definitive biography takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from Billy Wilder’s birth…

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    Watching Wilder: A Critical Guide to Director Billy Wilder’s Films

    Sherry Lowell-Lewis

    Leads students through the experience of critically viewing the American films of Billy Wilder, one of the most influential and celebrated directors of the 20th century. The text offers students…

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    Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder

    Gene D. Phillips

    Featuring Gene D. Phillips’s unique, in-depth critical approach, Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder provides a groundbreaking overview of a filmmaking icon.

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    Watching Wilder: A Critical Guide to Director Billy Wilder’s Films

    Sherry Lowell-Lewis

    Leads students through the experience of critically viewing the American films of Billy Wilder, one of the most influential and celebrated directors of the 20th century. The text offers students…

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    Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films

    Billy Wilder’s work remains a masterful combination of incisive social commentary, skilled writing and directing, and unashamed entertainment value. One of Hollywood’s foremost emigre filmmakers, Wilder holds a key position…

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    Knightdale

    W A Billy Wilder,Wanda Ramm

    Bravely settled by those looking to explore and discover what North Carolina’s interior had to offer, the town of Knightdale was established in 1907. To stimulate economic growth, a resident…

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    Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

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    Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first time

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    Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

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    A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard

    A revelation. -Marc Weingarten, Washington Post

    Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder’s early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the…

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    Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay

    Billy Wilder,Raymond Chandler

    Adapted from the James M Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, this title tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured…

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    Double Solitaire

    Donald Brackett

    Author Donald Brackett-whose grandfather was Charles Brackett's cousin-delves into family lore, correspondence, contemporary media reports, and all other manner of historical records to reconstruct the strange magic of Brackett &amp…

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    Estados de Gracia: Billy Wilder y la censura franquista (1946-1975)

    Jeroen Vandaele

    In the midst of National-Catholic outrage and censorship, Billy Wilder’s films helped open up the repertoire for moviegoers during Francoism. Vandaele’s Estados de Gracia contends that this explains why Wilder…

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    It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age

    Private revelations from a prominent Hollywood screenwriter and producer who worked closely with Billy Wilder from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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    Close-Up on Suset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream

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    Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that…

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    Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder

    Nora Henry

    This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of…

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    Magic Time

    J R Jordan

    A fascinating film-by-film journey behind the scenes into the genesis and creative process of one of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers.

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    Magic Time (hardback)

    J R Jordan

    A fascinating film-by-film journey behind the scenes into the genesis and creative process of one of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers.

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