Woody Allen bibliography
Appearance
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The following is a list of published (and some unpublished) works by or about the American film directorWoody Allen.
Books[edit]
- Getting Even(1971),ISBN0-394-47348-5
- Without Feathers(1975),ISBN0-394-49743-0
- Side Effects(1980),ISBN0-394-51104-2
- The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose.New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007,ISBN978-0-8129-7811-7.
- Mere Anarchy(2007),ISBN978-1400066414
- Apropos of Nothing(2020), New York: Arcade Publishing
- Zero Gravity(2022), New York: Arcade Publishing
Compilation
- The Complete Prose of Woody Allen: Without feathers, Getting even and Side effects(1991)[1]
Interviews
- Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman(2005)[2]
- Woody Allen: Interviews(2006)[3]
Chapbook
- Lunatic's Tale(1986),ISBN1-55628-001-7(Short story previously included inSide Effects.)
The New Yorkerpieces[edit]
Since 1966, Allen has written more than 38 humorous pieces forThe New Yorker.[4]
- Allen, Woody (January 22, 1966)."The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (May 28, 1966)."A Little Louder, Please".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (October 8, 1966)."Yes, But Can The Steam Engine Do This?".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (April 29, 1967)."Spring Bulletin".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (March 16, 1968)."Notes from the Overfeed".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (July 27, 1968)."Death Knocks".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (May 10, 1969)."The Metterling Lists".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (December 27, 1969)."My Philosophy".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (June 20, 1970)."Hassidic Tales, With A Guide To Their Interpretation By The Noted Scholar".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (August 15, 1970)."A Look at Organized Crime".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (April 17, 1971)."The Schmeed Memoirs".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (October 7, 1972)."Examining Psychic Phenomena".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (October 28, 1972)."A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (January 13, 1973)."The Early Essays".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (November 5, 1973)."Selections From The Allen Notebooks".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (October 28, 1974)."Lovborg's Women Considered".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (December 16, 1974)."The Whore of Mensa".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (March 3, 1975)."No Kaddish For Weinstein".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (March 17, 1975)."Fine Times: An Oral Memoir".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (December 29, 1975)."Reminiscences: Places And People".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (February 23, 1976)."By Destiny Denied (Notes for an Eight-Hundred-Page Novel-The Big Hook They're All Waiting For)".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (October 18, 1976)."The Confessions of a Burglar".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (May 2, 1977)."The Kugelmass Episode".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (June 13, 1977)."The UFO Menace".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (November 21, 1977)."The Condemned".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (February 5, 1979)."Fabrizio's: Criticism and Response".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (February 25, 1980)."The Diet".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (June 9, 1980)."A Giant Step for Mankind".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (February 21, 2000)."Attention Geniuses: Cash Only".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (November 13, 2000)."On a Bad Day You Can See Forever".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (March 4, 2002)."Sing, You Sacher Tortes".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (April 14, 2003)."The Rejection".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (December 13, 2004)."Surprise Rocks Disney Trial".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (November 21, 2005)."Above the Law, Below the Box Springs".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (July 6, 2006)."Thus Ate Zarathustra".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (October 2, 2006)."Pinchuck's Law".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (May 26, 2008)."Over, Around, and Through Your Highness".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (November 10, 2008)."Think Hard, It'll Come Back to You".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (March 30, 2009)."Tails of Manhattan".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (January 10, 2010)."Udder Madness".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (May 10, 2010)."Will the Real Avatar Please Stand Up".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (January 24, 2011)."Money Can Buy Happiness-As If".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (May 28, 2012)."Not a Creature Was Stirring".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.
- Allen, Woody (August 5, 2013)."Now, where did I leave that oxygen tank?".Shouts & Murmurs.The New Yorker.89(23): 30–31.
Plays[edit]
Year | Title | Type | Notes | Performances | Publication Notes |
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1966 | From A to Z | Musical revue | Opened on Broadway 20 April 1960 | 21 performances | Unpublished Book by Allen, Herbert Farjeon, and Nina Warner Hook |
1966 | Don't Drink the Water | Play | Opened on Broadway 17 November 1966 | 598 performances | Published in 1967 ASIN B0006BSWBW |
1968 | Death Knocks | One-act play | first published inThe New Yorker,27 July 1968 | ||
1969 | Play It Again, Sam | Play | Opened on Broadway 12 February 1969 | 453 performances | ISBN0-394-40663-X |
1975 | God | One-act play | First published in Allen's collectionWithout Feathers(1975) Available separately asISBN0-573-62201-9 | ||
1975 | Death | One-act play | First published in Allen's collectionWithout Feathers(1975) | ||
1981 | The Floating Light Bulb | Play | Opened on Broadway 27 April 1981 | 62 performances (+16 previews) | Published byRandom Housein 1982 |
1995 | Central Park West | One-act play | Opened as part of the off-Broadway three-play compilationDeath Defying Acts (other two plays written byElaine MayandDavid Mamet) |
First published in 2003 as part of Allen's collectionThree One-Act Plays | |
2003 | Riverside Drive | One-act play | Opened on 15 May 2003 as part of the off-Broadway two-play compilationWriter's Block | First published in 2003 as part of Allen's collectionThree One-Act Plays | |
2003 | Old Saybrook | One-act play | Opened on 15 May 2003 as part of the off-Broadway two-play compilationWriter's Block | First published in 2003 as part of Allen's collectionThree One-Act Plays | |
2004 | A Second Hand Memory | Play | Opened off-Broadway 22 November 2004. Starring Michael McKean, Elizabeth Marvel, Kate Blumberg, Dominic Chianese and Beth Fowler. Directed by Allen. |
Unpublished | |
2011 | Honeymoon Motel | One-act play | Opened on 20 October 2011 as part of the Broadway three-play compilationRelatively Speaking (other two plays written byElaine MayandEthan Coen). |
118 performances | First published in 2012 as part of the collectionRelatively Speaking |
2014 | Bullets Over Broadway | Musical | Opened on Broadway 10 April 2014 | 156 performances (+33 previews) | Book by Allen, based on the screenplay by Allen andDouglas McGrath |
Biography[edit]
- Baxter, John (2000).Woody Allen: A Biography.Carroll & Graf Publishers.ISBN978-0-7867-0807-9.
- Lax, Eric (2000).Woody Allen: A Biography.Da Capo Press.ISBN978-0-306-80985-9.
- Meade, Marion (December 2010).The Unruly Life of Woody Allen.E-reads/E-rights.ISBN978-1-61756-068-2.
Critical studies[edit]
- Bailey, Peter (12 September 2010).The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen.University Press of Kentucky.ISBN0-8131-2839-0.
- Blake, Richard Aloysius (1995).Woody Allen: profane and sacred.Scarecrow Press, Incorporated.ISBN978-0-8108-2993-0.
- Curry, Renée R. (1996).Perspectives on Woody Allen.G.K. Hall.ISBN978-0-8161-1615-7.
- Flashner, Graham (1 January 1987).Fun With Woody: The Complete Woody Allen Quiz Book.Henry Holt & Company.ISBN978-0-8050-0519-6.
- Girgus, Sam B. (18 November 2002).The Films of Woody Allen.Cambridge University Press.ISBN978-0-521-00929-4.
- Harvey, Adam (6 March 2007).The Soundtracks of Woody Allen: A Complete Guide to the Songs and Music in Every Film, 1969–2005.McFarland.ISBN978-0-7864-2968-4.
- King, Kimball (2001).Woody Allen: A Casebook.Psychology Press.ISBN978-0-8153-3124-7.
- Lee, Sander H. (1997).Woody Allen's Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on His Serious Films.McFarland.ISBN978-0-7864-0207-6.
- Navacelle, Thierry de (1987).Woody Allen on location.Morrow.ISBN978-0-688-06643-7.
- Reimertz, Stephan (2005).Woody Allen(in German). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
- Woody Allen:Conversations with Filmmakers Series,ed. R. E. Kapsis and K. Coblentz, (2006)ISBN1-57806-793-6
- Ava Cahen, Woody Allen: Profession: cynique, L'Archipel, 2015 (ISBN978-2-8098-1757-7)
- Brook, Vincent and Grinberg, Marat (Eds.):Woody on Rye. Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen,Brandeis University Press, 2014
- Essay by Victoria Loy on Woody Allen's career,Senseofcinema.com
- Silet, Charles L.P. (27 July 2006).The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays.Scarecrow Press.ISBN978-1-4616-7283-8.
References[edit]
- ^Allen, Woody (1991).Complete prose.New York: Wings Books.
- ^Allen, Woody (2005).Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman.Grove Press.ISBN978-0-8021-4203-0.
- ^Allen, Woody (2006).Woody Allen: Interviews.Univ. Press of Mississippi.ISBN978-1-57806-793-0.
- ^Overbey, Erin(March 26, 2010)."Eighty-Five from the Archive: Woody Allen".The New Yorker.RetrievedJune 9,2020.