Four Films Of Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Stardust Memories
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Few figures in American cinema have wielded the pen and the camera with such equal mastery as Woody Allen, and Four Films of Woody Allen gathers the complete screenplays of four of his most celebrated works — Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, and Stardust Memories — into a single indispensable volume. From the neurotic, razor-sharp romantic comedy of Annie Hall to the brooding Bergmanesque drama of Interiors, the achingly beautiful black-and-white romanticism of Manhattan, and the self-referential surrealism of Stardust Memories, these scripts chart a remarkably fertile creative period in Allen's career spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Together, these screenplays reveal Allen as a literary auteur of the highest order, whose dialogue crackles with wit, anxiety, and philosophical longing. His scripts read not merely as blueprints for performance but as fully realised literary works — dense with cultural allusion, psychoanalytic undercurrent, and a distinctly New York sensibility. Published by the prestigious Faber and Faber imprint, long synonymous with the finest dramatic writing in the English language, this collection is essential reading for students of cinema, theatre, and American literature alike — and will leave any reader wondering just how much of Allen's restless, searching intellect was autobiography, and how much was art.
Author: Woody Allen
Format: Paperback
Genre: Movies & entertainment
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in American cinema have wielded the pen and the camera with such equal mastery as Woody Allen, and Four Films of Woody Allen gathers the complete screenplays of four of his most celebrated works — Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, and Stardust Memories — into a single indispensable volume. From the neurotic, razor-sharp romantic comedy of Annie Hall to the brooding Bergmanesque drama of Interiors, the achingly beautiful black-and-white romanticism of Manhattan, and the self-referential surrealism of Stardust Memories, these scripts chart a remarkably fertile creative period in Allen's career spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Together, these screenplays reveal Allen as a literary auteur of the highest order, whose dialogue crackles with wit, anxiety, and philosophical longing. His scripts read not merely as blueprints for performance but as fully realised literary works — dense with cultural allusion, psychoanalytic undercurrent, and a distinctly New York sensibility. Published by the prestigious Faber and Faber imprint, long synonymous with the finest dramatic writing in the English language, this collection is essential reading for students of cinema, theatre, and American literature alike — and will leave any reader wondering just how much of Allen's restless, searching intellect was autobiography, and how much was art.