Loser Take All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen

by Maurice Yacowar

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

330 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Emanuel F. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extreme academic deep dive into Woody Allen's process, his comedy, nuance, and the various breakdowns of how his comedy affects overall emotional content and story.

I've been using some of these insights into my own editing process. The study of nuance in this book is fascinating. Down to the use of pronouns and adjectives.

[Sammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was unreasonably sceptical going into this, as there were too many simple coffee table volumes on Allen written in the 1980s and early 1990s. But this is actually a very well-sourced overview of Allen's work to 1979, now often considered pioneering for its sensible, scholarly study of the outsider status of Allen's comic persona and his comic stylings. Aside from Eric Lax's 'inside the bubble' books, this is the first really important book on Allen's films, albeit coming when he had only made a tiny percentage of his overall oeuvre.

[RK Byers · Rating 4 out of 5]

the Annie Hall essay alone made it worth the read.