Maurice Yacowar's Books

A Canadian film/TV scholar analyses the extremely successful Israeli television drama episode by episode, examining the structure and themes of each program and the entire series.

In this traditional auteurist examination of Hitchcock's early work, author Maurice Yacowar considers Hitchcock's British films in chronological order, reading the composition of individual shots and scenes in each, and paying special attention to the films' verbal effects.

The Films of Paul Morrissey is the first appraisal of one of the major figures of American independent cinema. An innovator in the narrative cinema that emerged from Andy Warhol's Factory, Morrissey, as established in this study, was also the force who shaped the most important films that have heretofore been attributed to Warhol. The director's experiments in the use of non-professional actors, controversial subject matter, and language are demonstrated through analysis of his most accomplished achievements, including Mixed Blood, 40 Deuce, and Spike of Bensonhurst. The Films of Paul Morrissey furthermore reveals the director's challenge to the moral, social and political values of contemporary liberalism.

This episode-by-episode analysis of The Sopranos' last season supplements the author's study, The Sopranos on the Couch. Appendices consider the show's ethnic stereotypy, the influence of The Public Enemy, and the motif of oranges in the Godfather trilogy.

In this sharp, often bawdy satire, a young WASP man profits from his friendship with an old Jewish pawnbroker.

If television programming is normally considered a wasteland, then The Sopranos may be thought of as a jungle: richly colored, teeming with life, dark with mystery. The Sopranos on the Couch is a must for all who are already caught up in the excitement, as well as for viewers who are coming to the show for the first time. Yacowar helps us understand exactly why we can't get enough of Tony Soprano and that colorful mafia family that we hate to love and often love to hate!This pop-culture sensation is not only the most controversial series on television, but also the most provocative, thoughtful, and complex. Its language and themes have stretched the norms of commercial television, many characters and phrases having entered our everyday life.The Sopranos on the Couch is the first book to provide a compact, lively, and authoritative examination of each episode and season - the themes, inside jokes, and allusions - thereby putting the series into a broader cultural context.

Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me, a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowar's relationship with Roy Farran - soldier, politician, author, mentor - and his conflict with Farran's anti-Semitic past. Best known for his service with the Special Air Service during World War II, Roy Farran served as a politician in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Premier Peter Lougheed. During his time as a soldier, Farran allegedly kidnapped and murdered a sixteen-year-old member of the Lehi group. Roy & Me is a memoir that edges toward fiction by venturing into Farran's thoughts, based on his writings and Yacowar's imagination.

The first in-depth look at a television phenomenon.

In this sharp, often bawdy satire, a young WASP man profits from his friendship with an old Jewish pawnbroker.

A Canadian film scholar provides an episode by episode analysis of the themes and structure of the brilliant Israeli TV drama. This critical analysis is accessible to the lay reader as well as the academic.

Discusses Brooks' films, comedy recordings, and TV work and points out recurring themes in all of his comedy

Book's by Maurice Yacowar

Reading SHTISEL: A TV Masterpiece from Israel

Reading SHTISEL: A TV Masterpiece from Israel

Hitchcock's British Films

Hitchcock's British Films

The Films of Paul Morrissey

The Films of Paul Morrissey

The Sopranos Season Seven

The Sopranos Season Seven

Mondays with Moishe

Mondays with Moishe

The Sopranos on the Couch

The Sopranos on the Couch

Hitchcock's British Films

Hitchcock's British Films

Roy & Me

Roy & Me

The Sopranos on the Couch

The Sopranos on the Couch

The Sopranos on the Couch

The Sopranos on the Couch

Roy & Me

Roy & Me

Mondays with Moishe

Mondays with Moishe

The Films of Paul Morrissey

The Films of Paul Morrissey

Reading Shtisel: A TV Masterpiece from Israel

Reading Shtisel: A TV Masterpiece from Israel

Method in Madness

Method in Madness

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