Woody Allen
Subtitle: interviews
By: edited by Robert E. Kapsis
Contributors: Kapsis, Robert E., editor
Edition: Revised and updated edition ; second edition.
Series: Conversations with filmmakers series; Conversations with filmmakers series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781628466935; 9781496804457
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Interviews; Motion picture producers and directors; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production; PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
Description: "This revised and updated edition gathers 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 works. The present collection is a complete update of the volume that first appeared in 2006. In the years since, Allen has continued making movies, including Midnight in Paris and the Oscar-winning Blue Jasmine. While many interviews from the original edition have been retained in the present volume, ten new entries extend the coverage of Allen's directorial career through 2015. In addition, there are two new, in-depth interviews from the period covered in the first edition. Most of the interviews included in the original volume first appeared in such widely known publications and venues as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Playboy. A number of smaller and lesser-known venues are also represented, especially in the new volume. Several interviews from non-American sources add an international perspective on Allen's work. Materials for the new volume include pieces focusing primarily on Allen's films as well as broader profiles and interviews that also concentrate on his literary talent. Perhaps Stephen Mamber best describes Allen's distinctiveness, especially early in his career: "Woody Allen is not the best new American comedy director or the best comedy writer or the best comedy actor, he's simply the finest combination of all three.""--
Notes: Includes filmography (pages xxxi-lviii) and index.
Table of contents: title: Woody Allen Interview / Robert Mundy and Stephen Mamber; title: Woody Allen Says Comedy Is No Laughing Matter / Kathleen Carroll; title: A Conversation with the Real Woody Allen / Ken Kelley; title: Woody Allen on Woody Allen / Gary Arnold; title: Scenes from a Mind: Woody Allen Is Nobody's Fool / Ira Halberstadt; title: An Interview with Woody / Frank Rich; title: Creators on Creating: Woody Allen / Robert F. Moss; title: Allen Goes Back to the Woody of Yesteryears / Charles Champlin; title: Woody Allen, Inside Out / Gary Arnold; title: Interview with Woody Allen / Robert Benayoun; title: Woody on the Town / Joe Klein; title: Woody Allen / Alexander Walker; title: Husbands and Wives / Stig Bjorkman; title: If You Knew Woody Like I Knew Woody / Douglas McGrath; title: Interview with Woody Allen: "My Heroes Don't Come from Life, but from Their Mythology" / Michel Ciment and Yann Tobin; title: The Imperfectionist / John Lahr; title: Woody Allen: "All My Films Have a Connection with Magic" / Michel Ciment and Franck Garbarz; title: Reconstructuring Woody / Peter Biskind; title: Still a Working Stiff / Scott Foundas; title: Interview with Woody Allen / Scott Tobias; title: Interview with Woody Allen / Douglas McGrath; title: In Conversation: Woody Allen / Adam Moss; title: Woody Allen on Life, Films, and Whatever Works / Terry Gross; title: Woody Allen: The Film Comment Interview (Expanded Version) / Kent Jones; title: Woody Allen Interview / Scott Foundas; title: Woody Allen on Blue Jasmine / Catherine Shoard.