Woody Allen
Serious about comedy
From gag writer to Oscar winner and beyond
Woody Allen began his career writing jokes and scripts, progressed to stand-up and acting, then wrote and directed his first film, Take the Money and Run, in 1969. Like many of his early works, this screwball comedy starred Allen as a hapless, self-demeaning schlemiel who bumbles his way through preposterous and hilarious situations. After winning an Oscar for Annie Hall in 1977, Allen made Manhattan, Stardust Memories, and Hannah and Her Sisters, mining a deeper and more subtle humor based on personality and psychology. His later work revealed a poignant mix of tragi-comedy, charm and fantasy with The Purple Rose of Cairo, the nostalgia of Radio Days, the multiple plots of Crimes and Misdemeanors, and the bittersweet tone of Alice. The success of his recent Match Point, a tense, psychological drama, is proof that Allen is not yet through reinventing himself as a filmmaker.
The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
All the icons in the second batch of the series were voted for by over 4500 TASCHEN readers in a special online poll!
About the Series:
More bang for your buck! "... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review
About the editor:
Paul Duncan has edited 50 film books for TASCHEN, including the award-winning The Ingmar Bergman Archives, and authored Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick in the Film Series.
About the author:
Glenn Hopp teaches film and literature at Howard Payne University in central Texas. His books include The Pocket Essential Billy Wilder, a guide to epic films, TASCHEN's Billy Wilder: The Complete Films, and TASCHEN’s Grace Kelly.
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Woody Allen
Duncan, Paul (Editor)
Hopp, Glenn Flexicover, 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.), 192 pages $ 9.99 |
- Reviews (5 items)
"Biografías de las personalidades más destacadas del mundo del cine. Mucho se ha hablado del glamour de Hollywood, de esos insignes estudios por los que pululaban más estrellas que en el cielo, de esos actores que más que actores eran dioses...y diosas. La era dorada del cine...todo tiempo pasado fue mejor, ¿no? Movie Icons se ha creado para homenajear a los grandes del cine, a las iconos a las grandes estrellas, a los inolvidables del cine. Son pequeñas biografías visuales de 192 páginas cada una. Para cada título, el editor Paul Duncan ha seleccionado aproximadamente 150 imágenes de gran calidad, retratos a la vez enigmáticos y suntuosos, poster de gran colorido, tarjetas y raros fotogramas así como antiguas fotos de cada uno que los presentan tal como eran. Cada libro viene acompañado de una corta pero magnífica introducción a cargo de especialistas. Cada libro incluye una cronología, una filmografía, una bibliografía y por supuesto va salpimentado de algunas anécdotas y frases de películas y de la vida de cada uno."
Galaxia Comics, Madrid, Spain
Galaxia Comics, Madrid, Spain
- Clippings (4 items)
Tief ins Auge von Allen, De Niro und Depp
weltexpress.info, Germany, March 29, 2009
weltexpress.info, Germany, March 29, 2009
- See also (25 items)
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