Woody Allen Film by Film
Published 2015 · 256 pages · 70,400 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism, Biography, Nonfiction
How hard is Woody Allen Film by Film to read?
Woody Allen Film by Film scores 23 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 28 out of 100
- A critic's overview written for general film fans, it uses plain, accessible language to discuss plot, cast and reception. It sits near the accessible end, well below literary-critical works.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- An illustrated popular guide of about 70,000 words suggests clear, conventional sentences and short film-by-film entries. Nothing points to demanding grammar.
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- The organisation is concrete: individual films, decades, box office and interviews. Thematic sections on motifs add some abstraction, but the book stays tied to specific works.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Covering Allen's whole career from What's New Pussycat? to Irrational Man means many titles, casts and reception details, but photographs and a chronological layout spread them out comfortably.
How Woody Allen Film by Film is regarded
Woody Allen Film by Film holds a literary regard score of 17 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.