A Foreign Affair

A Foreign AffairWith six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institutes list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Yet how American is Billy Wilder, the Jewish migr from Central Europe? This book underscores this complex issue, unpacking underlying

and state-of-the-art diagnostic tools

John Ford's tragedy

has evolved over five hundred years of social turmoil to become a nearly magical object-the most popular musical instrument in the world

The papers in this volume look at the unexpected from a variety of periods and places of origin

Hedda Morrison's photographs will appeal to all who value documentary images and Asian history

and domestication of plants and landscapes

and Eberhardt

Global connections and screen innovations converge in Hong Kong cinema

Political decay in Islamic societies has for the most part been the subject of structural analyses while philosophical studies have been rare

This volume includes new data and major syntheses of the Paleolithic prehistory of the region

anthropocentrism

Vincent van Gogh