Billy Wilder, movie-maker: critical essays on the films

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Introduction / Karen McNally -- Matters of genre -- What exposure is the world? the desert noir of ace in the hole / Lance Duerfahrd -- An unconventional war film: death, disguise and deception in five graves to cairo / Dale M. Pollock -- Syncope, syncopation: musical hommages to Europe / Katherine Arens -- Realistic horror: film noir and the 1940s horror cycle / Mark Jancovich -- Representation, image and identity -- Shame and the single girl: reviving Fran and falling for Baxter in The apartment / Alison R. Hoffman -- "Have they forgotten what a star looks like?" image and theme with Dino, Cagney and Fedora / Karen McNally -- Phenomenological masking: complications of identity in double indemnity / Phillip Sipiora -- Production and reception -- "A small, effective organization": the Mirisch Company, the package-unit system, and the production of Some like it hot / Paul Kerr -- "Esthetically as well as morally repulsive": Kiss me, stupid, "Bilious Billy, " and the Battle Of Middlebrow taste / Ken Feil -- Censorship, negotiation and transgressive cinema: double indemnity, some like it hot and other controversial movies in the United States and Europe / Daniel Biltereyst -- Europe, America and beyond -- "I don't have a home!" Paris interregnum in Mauvaise graine / Leila Wimmer -- Palimpsest: the double vision of exile / Nancy Steffen-Fluhr -- Sabrina, Hollywood and postwar internationalism / Dina Smith -- Evolving modernities: formation of the urban imagination in Hindi cinema / Sunny Singh.;This wide-ranging collection of essays by an international group of scholars examines the significance of Wilder's filmmaking from a variety of original perspectives. Engaging with issues of genre, industry, representation and national culture, the volume provides fresh insights into Wilder's films and opens up his work to further exploration"--Provided by publisher