Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge

by Joseph McBride

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231216610
• ISBN13: 9780231216616
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"