A FOREIGN AFFAIR

...provides a hugely readable, insightful examination of Billy Wilders American films as the product of transnational cultural exchange. · Monatshefte Gemündens vital decoding of Wilders translation of himself into the American vernacular offers stimulating new material and perspectives that will no doubt shape Wilder scholarship to come. · Austrian Studies Newsletter Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great sense of humor. Gerd Gemünden, however, achieves a small miracle