{"product_id":"billy-wilder-dancing-on-the-edge","title":"Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Joseph McBride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA trenchant reappraisal of Wilder’s half-century-long career.―Noah Isenberg, \u003cem\u003eT\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ehe Nation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[A] brilliant exegesis of Wilder’s life and work . . . [McBride's] approach works well, illuminating Wilder’s themes and obsessions across the entire span of a lifetime, and therefore across almost the entire twentieth century. ―A. S. Hamrah, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBookforum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEasily the most insightful, lively, and thought-provoking book on film I’ve come across this year; no one is better than McBride when it comes to exploring and clarifying the complex intersection between cultural, historical, and psychological forces that yields an artist’s work, and his volume on Wilder is as good as anything he’s ever written – which means it’s as good as anything \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eany\u003c\/span\u003e film critic has ever written.― Jim Hemphill, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFilmmaker Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including D\u003cem\u003eouble Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Apartment\u003c\/em\u003e-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixing 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e680 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eColumbia University Press, 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6.14 x 1.5 x 9.21\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9780231216616\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtist Biography, Film\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46674886426792,"sku":"9780231216616","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Billy_Wilder-Dancing_on_the_edge-Joseph_mcBridge-columbia.jpg?v=1707166562","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/billy-wilder-dancing-on-the-edge","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}