Woody Allen : a travesty of a mockery of a sham / Patrick McGilligan.

By:

McGilligan, Patrick, 1951-

Material type: Text

TextOriginal language: English Publisher: London : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 826 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780062941336 (hardcover)
006294133X (hardcover)

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DDC classification:

791.430233092

LOC classification:

PN 1998.3 A432M 2025

Contents:

Fanfare: 2025: Death defying act I. Easy writer. 1935: Prep day 1955: The Woodman cometh 1961: The big noise II. Mr. Everything. 1965: The first golden age 1970: Clockwork 1977: Mr. Secretive III. Scenes from a non-marriage. 1980: The second golden age 1985: Sleepwalking into a mess 1992: The great unpleasantness IV. The great rectification campaign. 1993: The tears of a clown 1999: The Soon-Yi era 2012: Stuff happens V. A travesty of a mockery of a sham. 2016: Mr. Nothing

Summary: Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen's life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar's television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed a kangaroo on TV. He made a blank-check deal with a major studio for terms unmatched in Hollywood apart from early titans like Chaplin and Welles. All before Annie Hall. Yet despite once being one of the most consequential American cultural figures, Allen is now persona non grata. In this judicious biography, acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan charts the meteoric rise and fall of the comedian whose nonconformity proved both his secret genius and Achilles' heel. Drawing on meticulous research, McGilligan reconstructs Allen's Brooklyn boyhood, his salad days as a television comedy writer, his rise to stand-up, and the thoughtful, award-winning filmmaking of his golden years in the 1970s and '80s. His messy relationships with wives and girlfriends, including Annie Hall costar Diane Keaton, were essential to his artistic development and undoing. Yet no one could have predicted his tumultuous personal and professional relationship with actress Mia Farrow, his alleged abuse of their adopted daughter Dylan, and his subsequent marriage to Mia's daughter Soon-Yi Previn. In this comprehensive, sweeping, and rigorous account of Allen's life and career, McGilligan astutely reveals the writer's writer beyond the smoke and controversy, and paints a compelling portrait of the most creative, productive, and influential filmmaker of his time"-- Provided by publisher Amazon.com.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 1998.3 A432M 2025 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000191531

Includes Filmography (pages 778-800).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fanfare: 2025: Death defying act
I. Easy writer. 1935: Prep day
1955: The Woodman cometh
1961: The big noise
II. Mr. Everything. 1965: The first golden age
1970: Clockwork
1977: Mr. Secretive
III. Scenes from a non-marriage. 1980: The second golden age
1985: Sleepwalking into a mess
1992: The great unpleasantness
IV. The great rectification campaign. 1993: The tears of a clown
1999: The Soon-Yi era
2012: Stuff happens
V. A travesty of a mockery of a sham. 2016: Mr. Nothing

Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen's life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar's television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed a kangaroo on TV. He made a blank-check deal with a major studio for terms unmatched in Hollywood apart from early titans like Chaplin and Welles. All before Annie Hall. Yet despite once being one of the most consequential American cultural figures, Allen is now persona non grata. In this judicious biography, acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan charts the meteoric rise and fall of the comedian whose nonconformity proved both his secret genius and Achilles' heel. Drawing on meticulous research, McGilligan reconstructs Allen's Brooklyn boyhood, his salad days as a television comedy writer, his rise to stand-up, and the thoughtful, award-winning filmmaking of his golden years in the 1970s and '80s. His messy relationships with wives and girlfriends, including Annie Hall costar Diane Keaton, were essential to his artistic development and undoing. Yet no one could have predicted his tumultuous personal and professional relationship with actress Mia Farrow, his alleged abuse of their adopted daughter Dylan, and his subsequent marriage to Mia's daughter Soon-Yi Previn. In this comprehensive, sweeping, and rigorous account of Allen's life and career, McGilligan astutely reveals the writer's writer beyond the smoke and controversy, and paints a compelling portrait of the most creative, productive, and influential filmmaker of his time"-- Provided by publisher Amazon.com.

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