Research Catalog

Title

Billy Wilder on assignment : dispatches from Weimar Berlin and interwar Vienna / edited by Noah Isenberg ; translated by Shelley Frisch.

Author

Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002

Publication

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Isenberg, Noah William
• Frisch, Shelley Laura

Description

viii, 212 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm

Summary

"Before Billy Wilder (1906-2002) left Europe for the United States in 1934 and became a filmmaker, he worked as a newspaper reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. This book, edited and introduced by Noah Isenberg and translated by Shelley Frisch, collects about 65 articles Wilder published in Austrian and German newspapers in the 1920s. The collection includes reported pieces on urban life, from a first-person account of Wilder's stint as a taxi dancer to an article about street sweepers; profiles of writers, movie stars and poker players; and dispatches from the international film scene, from reviews to interviews with such figures as Charlie Chaplin and Erich von Stroheim. Isenberg provides an introduction that gives biographical details and places the writings in context, emphasizing their historical moment and their connections to Wilder's later career"--

Uniform Title

Articles. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Articles.

Subject

• Since 1900
• Journalism > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century
• Journalism > Austria > Vienna > History > 20th century
• Theater > Reviews
• Motion pictures > Reviews
• Journalism
• Manners and customs
• Motion pictures
• Theater
• Berlin (Germany) > Social life and customs
• Vienna (Austria) > Social life and customs
• Berlin (Germany) > History > 1918-1945
• Vienna (Austria) > History > 1918-
• Austria > Vienna
• Germany > Berlin

Genre/Form

• History.
• Reviews.
• Informational works.

Note

• Includes index.
• Translated from the German.

Language (note)

• In English, translated from the original German.

Contents

Introduction: A roving reporter, a tale of two cities, and the making of Billy Wilder -- Extra, extra! Reportage, opinion pieces, and features from real life -- Portraits of extraordinary and ordinary people -- Film and theater reviews.

Call Number

JFD 21-2842

ISBN

• 9780691194943
• 0691194947

LCCN

2020021170

OCLC

1201299102

Author

Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002, author.

Title

Billy Wilder on assignment : dispatches from Weimar Berlin and interwar Vienna / edited by Noah Isenberg ; translated by Shelley Frisch.

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

In English, translated from the original German.

Chronological Term

Since 1900

Added Author

Isenberg, Noah William, editor.

Frisch, Shelley Laura, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Wilder, Samuel, 1906-2002. Billy Wilder on assignment Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021] 9780691214559 (DLC) 2020021171

Research Call Number

JFD 21-2842