Those Radio Days

Those Radio Days
Author: A. S. Merwin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2010-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0557243319

Those Radio Days by A.S. Merwin

The Soundtracks of Woody Allen

The Soundtracks of Woody Allen
Author: Adam Harvey
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786429682

This comprehensive guide covers all of the music used in Woody Allen's films from Take the Money and Run (1969) to Match Point (2005). Each film receives scene-by-scene analysis with a focus on how Allen utilized music.

Radio Daze

Radio Daze
Author: Mike Olszewski
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873387736

This volume captures the radio scene during the 1970s and 1980s, chronicling how a small FM rock station, WMMS, became the top-rated station in Northeast Ohio and made Cleveland one of the most important radio markets in the world. It includes interviews with radio legends.

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1987-02-09
Genre:
ISBN:

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

A Brief History of the Future

A Brief History of the Future
Author: John Naughton
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1474602770

The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton's book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative account of where the Net actually came from, who invented it and why and where it might be taking us. Most of us have no idea how the Internet works, or who created it. Even fewer have any idea what it means for society and the future. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. He examines the nature of his own enthusiasm for technology and traces its roots in his lonely childhood and in his relationship with his father. A Brief History of the Future is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination and, above all, of the power of ideas, passionately felt, to change the world.

Woody Allen on Woody Allen

Woody Allen on Woody Allen
Author: Woody Allen
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780802142030

In a series of interviews Woody Allen shares the anxieties, frustrations, and inspirations in his life.

The Films of Woody Allen

The Films of Woody Allen
Author: Charles L. P. Silet
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810857377

From What's Up, Tiger Lily? to Match Point, Woody Allen's work has generated substantial interest among scholars and professionals who have written extensively about the director. In The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays, Charles L.P. Silet brings together two-dozen scholarly articles that address the core of Allen's work from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives. With a special emphasis on his films of the 1980s, this collection includes both general essays that examine various themes and issues encompassed in Allen's repertoire, as well as discussions that focus on one or two specific films. General essays explore Allen's Jewish background as a religious and cultural facet, his apparent love affair with New York City, and his relation to various strains of humor_particularly American film humor, but also Allen's broad use of such traditional comic tropes as irony and parody. The essays on individual films include examinations of some of Allen's most significant work including Love and Death, Annie Hall, Interiors, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan, and Shadows and Fog. A number of the articles collected here were originally published in now hard to locate places, while others were selected from journals not usually associated with film studies. The result is an anthology of essays that presents an overview of the central issues raised by Allen's body of work as well as a close examination of fourteen individual films that convey these larger themes. A wide-ranging exploration of one of America's most innovative and productive modern directors, this book should appeal to both professionals and students of contemporary film comedy.

Dummy Days

Dummy Days
Author: Kelly Asbury
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Examines the best of the Golden Age of ventriloquism, by profiling five performers who turned a vaudevillian gimmick into an American art form, including Edgar Bergen, Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson and Shari Lewis.

American Jewish Filmmakers

American Jewish Filmmakers
Author: David Desser
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2023-04-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0252055160

Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, all sons of East European Jews, remain among the most prominent contemporary American film directors. In this revised, updated second edition of American Jewish Filmmakers, David Desser and Lester D. Friedman demonstrate how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series of issues in the films of these and other significant Jewish directors. The effects of the Holocaust linger, both in gripping dramatic form (Mazursky's Enemies, a Love Story) and in black comedy (Brooks's The Producers). In his trilogy consisting of Serpico, Prince of the City, and Q&A, Lumet focuses on the failure of society's institutions to deliver social justice. Woody Allen portrays urban life and family relationships (Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters), sometimes with a nostalgic twist (Radio Days). This edition concludes with a newly written discussion of the careers of other prominent Jewish filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Brian Singer, and Darren Aronofsky.