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This fundamental book examines the paradoxical process of myth-making and its counterpart, demythification, in the complex and fascinating art of the world renowned dramatist and novelist Carlos Fuentes, and that of Billy Wilder, the Academy Award winning director of films like Sunset Boulevard, Fedora, Stalag 17, Lost Weekend, The Apartment, and Some Like it Hot. The extensive influence of Wilder's film noir masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard, on the dramatic art of Carlos Fuentes, in particular his compelling drama, Orquídeas a la luz de la luna (Orchids in the Moonlight), that stunningly fuses Mexican and Hollywood cinema, with a brilliant evocation of two of the greatest actresses of the Mexican screen, Dolores del Rio and Maria Felix, is traced.The Shattered Screen will be essential to film lovers, scholars of Latin American literature and culture, and to everyone who seeks to comprehend and appreciate how the powerful cinematic image is harnessed by the literary artist, who seeks not to compete with the filmic media but to incorporate its dynamism and its energy and wonder in order to vivify the literary work. ... Read more

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Kapitel: Billy Wilder, Douglas Wilder, Mário Soares, Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, Robert Byrd, Otmar Alt, Helmut Zilk, Fritz Muliar, Buzz Aldrin, Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, Fred Sinowatz, Karlheinz Böhm, Milo Dor, Michael Windsor, Glenn Ford, Holger Börner, Gordon Cooper, Omar Bongo, Eduard Georg Windsor, 2. Duke of Kent, Walter Schirra, Paul Joseph Weitz, Peter Weck, Roland Rainer, Tom Stafford, Hugo Portisch, Ernest Borgnine, Fiennes Cornwallis, 3. Baron Cornwallis, Tommy Thompson, Lionel Hampton, Jesse Jackson, Götz Kauffmann, Bob Hope, Kurt Regschek, John Glenn, Tilman Nagel, Jens Rusch, Peter Stiegnitz, Bob Riley, Helmut Reinalter, George Ryan, Henry Brandt, Rudolf Wurzer, Theodor Kery, Peter Vujica, Radha Burnier, Peter Ebdon, Hans Peter Haselsteiner, Max Schautzer, Rip Torn, Edmundo Ros, Erwin Strahl, John Gorton, Peter Michael Lingens, Alfred Schmidt, Gerd Scherm, W. Clement Stone, Helmut Thoma, Chuck Grassley, Peter Minich, Gerhard Klingenberg, Ingo Dannhorn, Michael Jeffery, John Van Nes Ziegler, Leopold Wagner, Edward Rendell, Billy Mo, Robert Jungbluth, Jürgen Gansäuer, Hans Bankl, Ernst Eugen Veselsky, Roger Jepsen, Asım Akin, André Delvaux, Michael Richards, Klaus-Jürgen Grün, Rüdiger Oppers, Erwin Frühbauer, Burkhardt Gorissen, Alexander Giese, Henk Zeevalking, Günter Zabel, George Savalla Gomes, Jon Tester, Kuno Knöbl, Piotr Kuncewicz. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 - 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-born American artist, journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won three Academy Awards for producing, directing and writing the same film (The Apartment). He first became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of Adolf Hitler, Wilder, who wa...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 196 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Chapters: Bertha Von Suttner, Stefan Zweig, Billy Wilder, Theodor Herzl, Karl Kraus, Count Richard Nikolaus Von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Hans Dichand, Max Brod, Gregor Von Rezzori, Anton Zischka, Helmut Krackowizer, Joseph Roth, Fritz Von Thurn Und Taxis, Gustav Von Franck, Felix Braun, David Josef Bach, Brigitte Hamann, Erik Durschmied, Bertha Diener, Hans Janitschek, Karin Resetarits, Alfred Hermann Fried, Günther Nenning, Hans-Peter Martin, Oskar Rosenfeld, Alfred Worm, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, Stefan Petzner, Ilse Maria Aschner, Robert Jungk, Paul Hofmann, Helmut Zilk, Ruth Weiss, Hubertus Czernin, Willy Meisl, Theodor Hertzka, Reuben Asher Braudes, Berta Zuckerkandl, Anton Bettelheim, Else Feldmann, Gerald Lehner, Sebastian Brunner, Armin Wolf, Klaus Emmerich, Melissa Müller, Paul Lendvai, Günther Schifter, Max Friedländer, Ben Segenreich, Alfred Polgar, Ernst Fischer, Moritz Szeps, Eva Menasse, Reinhold Klika, Ferdinand Kürnberger, Eduard Bacher, Joanna Nittenberg, Gerald Freihofner, Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, Michael Fleischhacker, Friedrich Schütz, Ernst Molden, Eva Pölzl. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 238. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Theodor Herzl -He was born in Pest to a Jewish family originally from Zemun, Austrian Empire (politically, Zemun is part of the Serbian capital Belgrade today). He was second child of Jeanette and Jakob Herzl, who were German-speaking, assimilated Jews. A precocious, moody daydreamer, he aspired to follow the footsteps of Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal. His success in the sciences failed him, and he developed a growing enthusiasm for poetry and the humanities. This passion would later develop into a successful career in journalism and a less celebrated pursuit of play-writing. Herzl had minimal interest in Judaism as ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8233758 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Roman Polanski, Billy Wilder, Cecil B. Demille, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Robert Zemeckis, Clint Eastwood, James Cameron, Robert Altman, Mel Gibson, Peter Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Newman, Oliver Stone, Warren Beatty, William Wyler, Barbra Streisand, Kevin Costner, Sidney Lumet, Frank Capra, Miloš Forman, John Huston, Ang Lee, Bernardo Bertolucci, George Cukor, Henry King, David Lean, Elia Kazan, Vincente Minnelli, Jack Cardiff, William Friedkin, Danny Boyle, Richard Attenborough, Leo Mccarey, Stanley Kramer, Fred Zinnemann, Sam Mendes, Joshua Logan, Arthur Hiller, Charles Jarrott, Mike Nichols, Michael Cimino, Julian Schnabel, Robert Rossen, Herbert Ross, László Benedek. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Clinton Elias Eastwood Jr, usuellement appelé Clint Eastwood (prononcé ), est un acteur, réalisateur, producteur et compositeur américain, né le 31 mai 1930 à San Francisco. Autodidacte, il entre grâce à des amis au studio où il interprète d'abord de petits rôles dans des séries B, puis l'un des rôles phares d'une longue série, . Il se fait alors remarquer par Sergio Leone qui l'embauche pour la Trilogie du dollar. Devenu célèbre, il interprète de nombreux rôles, d'abord pour , puis pour , notamment ceux de L'Inspecteur Harry. En 1968, il devient producteur avec la création de la société Malpaso et réalise son premier film en 1971, avec Un frisson dans la nuit. Aujourd'hui, avec plus de quatre-vingts films à son actif, parmi lesquels Impitoyable, Sur la route de Madison ou encore et plus récemment et Gran Torino, Eastwood est parmi les cinéastes les plus connus du monde entier. D'abord reconnu pour ses rôles d'aliénés, moralement ambigus, ou encore d'anti-héros,...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stalag 17 is a 1953 war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is a traitor. It was adapted from a Broadway play.Produced and directed by Billy Wilder, it starred William Holden, Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Neville Brand, Harvey Lembeck, and Peter Graves (Strauss and Lembeck both appeared in the original Broadway production); Wilder also cast Otto Preminger in the role of the evil camp commander. ... Read more

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Hilarious, touching, thoughtful, well-written
"Conversations with Wilder" is an insightful and engaging book about the elusive and curmudgeonly Billy Wilder, one of the great filmmakers of the last century. Not being from his generation (nor Crowe's, for that matter) I knew very little about Billy Wilder other than The Apartment and Some Like It Hot. Crowe's book is extremely entertaining and filled with amazing photos from Wilder's life, both cinematic and personal.
More than that, "Conversations" mines deep into the bowels of Wilder's mind and pulls out gem after gem, great stories of an era in Hollywood that has long since passed. Just to hear (read) Wilder speak of Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, etc... and to get intimate details of Wilder's relationship with these luminaries, his thoughts and anecdotes about working with them, makes "Conversations With Wilder" well worth the trip. Crowe also manages to humanize Wilder, bringing out the charm, intelligence and of course the great Wilder wit, still very much alive at age 93.

As much as I enjoyed the interview portions (a great majority of the book) I equally enjoyed Crowe's interludes, describing Wilder with great insight, and weaving many humorous anecdotes himself about the great Wilder and Crowe's journey in writing the book.

This book is a must read not only for Wilder junkies, film fans, and anyone who has an interest in a time that has come and gone in American cinema, but is an entertaining read for the neophyte as well (like me). Highly recommended! ... Read more