Billy Wilder on Assignment Dispatches From Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

"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"--

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Edited by Noah Isenberg Translated by Shelley Frisch

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"“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

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• Authors: Billy Wilder
• Assisted by: Noah Isenberg (Editor), Isenberg Noah (Editor), Noah Isenberg (Introduction), Isenberg Noah (Introduction), Shelley Frisch (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 25.10.2022
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism
• EAN: 9780691241838
• ISBN: 978-0-691-24183-8
• Pages: 224
• Subjects: Kitsch, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplin, Kurt Weill, Lotte Reiniger, Travel, Literature, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Max Reinhardt, Farce, Meal, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Episode, Repertoire, Saxophone, Carl Laemmle, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Heinrich von Kleist, HISTORY / Social History, Vienna, Shirt, Social & cultural history, Entertainment, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Actor, Udine, Biography: arts & entertainment, Customer, Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauß, Douglas Fairbanks, Paul Whiteman, Social and cultural history, Literary essays, Clothing, Kurt Gerron, lighting, Biography: arts and entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Fritz Mauthner, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, 1918–1933 (period of the Weimar Republic), leather, Grock, Pomade, Silent Film, bottle, Tatarstan, Lon Chaney, Child actor, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Subtitle (captioning), coffeehouse, Film stock, Trousers, Nostril, Variety Show, My Father, Robert Scholz, Cockade, american folk music, In the Air (DMA's song), film studio, Landing area, Say Uncle, Cost Estimate, Coat (clothing), D. W. Griffith, Title role, john van druten, Hotshot (stock character), Fritz Kampers, Announcer, Augusto Genina, Willy Fritsch, On Assignment, dramaturge, Edmund Goulding, Adjutant, Georg Jacoby, A Little Game, Nevsky Prospect, Adolphe Menjou, G. W. Pabst