Billy Wilder on Assignment - Dispatches From Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. Billy Wilder on Assignment brings together more than fifty articles, translated into English for the first time, that Wilder (then known as "Billie?) published in magazines and newspapers between September 1925 and November 1930. From a humorous account of Wilder's stint as a hired dancing companion in a posh Berlin hotel and his dispatches from the international film scene, to his astute profiles of writers, performers, and political figures, the collection offers fresh insights into the creative mind of one of Hollywood's most revered writer-directors.

About the author

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) wrote and directed Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment, among other films. Over the course of his career, he won seven Academy Awards. Noah Isenberg is the George Christian Centennial Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. His many books include We'll Always Have “Casablanca” and Weimar Cinema. Twitter @NoahIsenberg Instagram @noah.isenberg1967 Shelley Frisch is the award-winning translator of Dietrich & Riefenstahl and the three-volume Kafka (Princeton), among other books. Twitter @shelfrisch

Summary

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

Additional text

"“Billy Wilder on Assignment is a beautifully assembled collection of the early writings of a master storyteller whose body of work has entertained moviemakers and movie watchers for generations."---Leonora Cravotta, American Spectator

Product details

• Authors: Shelley Frisch, Noah Isenberg, Billy Wilder
• Assisted by: Noah Isenberg (Editor), Isenberg Noah (Editor), Noah Isenberg (Introduction), Isenberg Noah (Introduction), Shelley Frisch (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2021
• EAN: 9780691194943
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19494-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, HISTORY / Social History, Vienna, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Biography: arts & entertainment, Social and cultural history, Literary essays, Biography: arts and entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, 1918–1933 (period of the Weimar Republic)