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Woody Allen
The enormously entertaining memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time - Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller.
In this…
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A humor classic by one of the funniest writers today, SIDE EFFECTS is a treat for all those who know his work and those just discovering how gifted he is…
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Comprising the classic bestsellers Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really-this book has no Introduction.
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Tom Shone
Woody Allen is a uniquely innovative performer, writer and director with nearly fifty movies to his credit, from cult slapstick films and romantic comedies to introspective character studies and crime…
Patrick McGilligan
The acclaimed film biographer and author of Young Orson and Funny Man returns with the definitive look at the life and legacy of Woody Allen.
The writer, director, and frequent…
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Allen Woody
Over the course of his long directing career, Woody Allen has portrayed contemporary American life with an unmistakable mixture of irony, neurotic obsession, and humor. Woody Allen on Woody Allen…
A series of interviews with Woody Allen, conducted by a Swedish film journalist and film-maker. Allen discusses his motivation, his inspiration, and the anxieties of the artist in the modern…
Chris Wade
A film by film guide through the career of Woody Allen, from his masterpieces Annie Hall and Manhattan, to lost gems like Shadows and Fog. The book also goes into…
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Kimball King
Woody Allen has had a distinguished career as a playwright and screenwriter/director. In this text, the authors select major plays and films by Woody and examine their complexities in detail…
Eric Lax
From the author of the bestselling biography Woody Allen comes this collection of the most revealing conversations from Laxs 36 years of interviewing the great comedian and filmmaker. Photographs throughout.
Thomas S. Hischak
This reference work consists of entries on every film, television, stage, and literary work by Woody Allen. The volume also includes entries on people (actors, producers, writers, etc.) who have…
Woody Allen (b. 1935) is one of America’s most idiosyncratic filmmakers, with an unparalleled output of nearly one film every year for over three decades. Woody Allen: Interviews collects over…
An expansive and insightful collection of interviews with one of cinema’s highly regarded filmmakers.
Interviews and profiles covering the entire forty-five year span of Woody Allen’s career as a filmmaker, including detailed discussions of his most popular as well as his most critically acclaimed…
Sam B. Girgus (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
This book was the first full-length work to examine the director as a serious filmmaker and artist. This revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that examine Allen’s work…
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work … I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen has been one of the most well-regarded filmmakers since his…
Marion Meade
As an actor, writer and director, Woody Allen had the world at his feet. Revered by the critics, his films were loved by audiences and taking ever-increasing sums at the…
Richard Schickel
Brief but sharply honed, this book is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand the life and times of one of the most important–and least understood–American filmmakers of our…
In an unprecedented television program, Woody Allen spoke to the camera for the first time about the entire range of his work, in an interview with Richard Schickel. But the…
Considering the current climate of the treatment of women in Hollywood following the Harvey Weinstein case, many male celebrities have been brought forward on charges of sexual harassment, including Woody…
D. E. Wynter
Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen is a scholarly collection that provides expansive exploration of the auteur’s use of intertexuality, referentiality, and fusion of media forms. Its scope is…
William Brigham
Historical Dictionary of Woody Allen contains a chronology, an introduction, a filmography, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on the actors, actresses…
Comedy Woody Allen Characters: 18 male, 2 female (doubling possible). Bare stage, simple props. A maniacal killer is at large and Kleinman is caught between conflicting factions with plans on…
Set in an empty Greek amphitheater, this mad play within a play switches back and forth between ancient Athens and modern Broadway. A Greek actor and a writer are discussing…
The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time.
Features eighteen witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces. This book includes tales of a body double who, mistaken for the film’s star, is kidnapped by outlaws; a pretentious novelist forced…
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Born in Brooklyn, Woody Allen began working in entertainment when he was just 16 years old, writing jokes for columns about Broadway. He has spent more than 60 years working…
Comedy Characters: 3 male, 8 female Interior Set Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart’s technique…Bookish and insecure with women, Allan’s hero…
The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time–Now a New York Times, USA Today,
Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller. In this candid…
Each play is an absurdist take on marital infidelity one instance set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the other in Old Saybrook Connecticut. Fred Savage a homicidal…
Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine
Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published…
Comprises three classic works: Without Feathers, Getting Even , and Side Effects
Short Plays / Comedy / 2m, 3f / 3 ints. This long-running Off Broadway hit features the work of three gifted playwrights. David Mamet’s AN INTERVIEW is an oblique, mystifying…
In his first collection since his three hilarious classics, Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound…
The comedian-writer-filmmaker offers stories, essays, parodies, one-act plays, and fugitive pieces, in which he grapples and gallivants with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes and fortuitous outrages.
The popular humorist contributes to the current flood of literature on the Mafia, mysticism, the Third Reich, and the twenties.
A bittersweet comedy by the author of Play it Again Sam, Don't Drink the Water and other favorites, premiered on Broadway at Lincoln Center starring Beatrice Arthur as long-suffered Enid…
Vittorio Hoesle
In this extended essay, Vittorio Hoesle develops a theory of the comical and applies it to interpret both the recurrent personae played by Woody Allen the actor and the philosophical…
From What’s Up, Tiger Lily? to Match Point, Woody Allen’s work has generated substantial interest among scholars and professionals who have written extensively about the director. In The Films of…
Peter J. Bailey
Merging criticism with biography, this work uses Allen’s ambivalent views of the artistic enterprise as the key to understanding his entire career. The author demonstrates how Allen’s films constitute a…
In this second edition Peter J. Bailey extends his classic study to consider Allen’s work during the twenty-first century.
Mary P. Nichols
The films of Woody Allen have been interpreted as expressions of deconstructionism, nihilism and postmodern angst. This text challenges these assumptions by arguing that Allen’s work is actually an attempt…
