"Steven Cohan has produced a well-researched guide to the film's production and its various visual quotations. Replete with a wealth of stills, it serves the purpose of an expert companion, leading the casual viewer through the richness of Wilder's bittersweet paean to the film industry." –Lillian Crawford, Times Literary Supplement
"Steven Cohan has given us a useful, blow-by-blow account of the making of the greatest Hollywood film about Hollywood, plus intelligent critical analysis of the many arts and crafts involved in the production of a classic." –James Naremore, University of Indiana, USA
"Cohan offers a highly animated, wonderfully rich, and thoroughly engaging reappraisal of Billy Wilder's landmark film, combining a meticulous reconstruction of its production history, a probing formal and contextual analysis of the picture, and an equally convincing account of its enduring legacy." –Noah Isenberg, University of Texas at Austin, USA