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Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.88"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay... -
Knightdale by W a Billy Wilder 9781531672119
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531672119Author W a Billy WilderFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint -
Stalag 17 by Billy Wilder 9780520218574
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18"Stalag 17" (1953), the riveting drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, was adapted from the Broadway play directed by Jose Ferrer in 1951. Billy Wilder developed the play and made the film version... -
Billy Wilder: Interviews by Robert Horton 9781578064441
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Always daring Hollywood censors' limits on content, Billy Wilder directed greats such as Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, and Gary Cooper... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £98.48The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
The Lost Weekend: The Complete Screenplay by Billy Wilder 9780520218567
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54"The Lost Weekend" swept the 1945 Academy Awards, with nominations for Best Film Editing, Score, and Black and White Cinematography, and Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay. It... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride 9780231216616
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.18The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay by Billy Wilder 9780520218482
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £19.88On every level - writing, direction, acting - "Double Indemnity" (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by... -
Billy Wilder, American Film Realist by Richard Armstrong 9780786421190
Booksplease Price: £22.90The films of Billy Wilder, from Double Indemnity to Some Like It Hot, are American classics created by a brilliant Austrian in love with his newfound country. This is a re-examination of the key... -
Double Solitaire: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder by Donald Brackett
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.48Before Herzog and Kinski, before Simon and Garfunkel, there was Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Despite their shared nickname, writer-producer Charles Brackett and writer-director Billy Wilder... -
A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films Gerd Gemunden 9781845454197
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.82With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of... -
A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films Gerd Gemunden 9781845454180
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £89.99With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of... -
On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder by Ed Sikov 9781496812452
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.28On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classicsas Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year... -
Billy Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films Karen McNally 9780786442119
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Billy Wilder's work remains a masterful combination of incisive social commentary, skilled writing and directing, and unashamed entertainment value. One of Hollywood's foremost emigre filmmakers,... -
Magic Time: The Films and Scripts of Billy Wilder by J R Jordan 9798887712505
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887712505Author J R JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint -
Magic Time (hardback): The Films and Scripts of Billy Wilder by J R Jordan 9798887712512
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887712512Author J R JordanFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna by Noah Isenberg
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.95A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into... -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna by Noah Isenberg 9780691241838
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.37A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into... -
Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder by Gene D. Phillips 9780813125701
Booksplease Price: £39.34One of the most accomplished writers and directors of classic Hollywood, Billy Wilder (1906--2002) directed numerous acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year... -
Watching Wilder: A Critical Guide to Director Billy Wilder's Films by Sherry Lowell-Lewis 9781516548842
Booksplease Price: £63.85Watching Wilder: A Critical Guide to Director Billy Wilder's Films leads students through the experience of critically viewing the American films of Billy Wilder, one of the most influential and... -
Billy Wilder and Some Like It Hot: The Genesis of America's Greatest Screen Comedy Wes D Gehring 9781476694405
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476694405Author Wes D GehringFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
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"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age by Anthony Slide 9780231167086
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.39Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the... -
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell 9780691176673
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are... -
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder Nora Henry 9780275964504
Booksplease Price: £80.84This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these... -
Close-Up on Suset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream by Agent Jdliterary@sbcglobal Net Sam Staggs 9780312302542
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302542Author Sam StaggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy by Celestino Deleyto
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of Hollywood. Steering away from the rigidity and ideological determinism of... -
The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy by Celestino Deleyto 9780719085598
Booksplease Price: £23.54Winner of the Enrique Garcia Diez book award for literary research (2009), The secret life of romantic comedy offers a new approach to one of the most popular and resilient genres in the history of... -
The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin: Twenty-First-Century Literature, Media, and Visual Culture Professor Jill Suzanne Smith 9781640141230
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Explores the recent proliferation of cultural representations of Weimar Berlin in the German-speaking world, probing the connections between historical and contemporary texts, their contexts, and... -
Otto Preminger: Interviews by Gary Bettinson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.34Otto Preminger (1905-1986), whose Hollywood career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, is popularly remembered for the acclaimed films he directed, among which are the classic film noir Laura, the... -
Otto Preminger: Interviews by Gary Bettinson 9781496835246
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.42Otto Preminger (1905-1986), whose Hollywood career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, is popularly remembered for the acclaimed films he directed, among which are the classic film noir Laura, the... -
Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood by David Mamet 9781668026311
Booksplease Price: £21.29Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies... -
Double Indemnity Richard Schickel 9781805750215
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled... -
Dashing to the End: The Ray Milland Story Eric Monder 9781496831491
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Born Alfred Reginald John Truscott-Jones, Welsh American actor Ray Milland (1907-1986) appeared in more than 135 theatrical releases between 1929 and 1985 and on radio, television, and the stage,... -
Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood David Mamet 9781668026328
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his "smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful" (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with... -
Falling in Love at the Movies: The Impact of Rom Coms from the Screwball Era to Today Esther Zuckerman 9780762484461
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Romantic comedies have had an incredible influence on popular culture, shaping everything from how we think of relationships to fashion. Often swept aside in film history, these movies are thought of... -
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES'Cain is the master' Tom WolfeDOUBLE... -
Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England by Jonathan Coe 9780241517406
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics: Fourth edition by David Nelson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics, from algebra to mechanics and from number theory to statistics. Invaluable for students at all levels, it... -
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47The prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England turns his gaze to one of cinema's most intriguing figures - famed director of Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder.***SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM*** In... -
The Real Bogie and Bacall Catherine Curzon 9781399074025
Booksplease Price: £24.16It was the Hollywood romance that warmed hearts and thrilled audiences, but the path to true love was littered with alcoholism, abandonment and bitter disappointments. Humphrey Bogart had crawled...