A conversation with film historian and critic Joseph McBride, author of Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge—Wilder helped lead America out of its puritanical isolation and xenophobia

The WSWS spoke recently to Joseph McBride, film historian, biographer and academic, about his new work, Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge .

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