A companion to Woody Allen / edited by Peter J. Bailey and Sam B. Girgus.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors ; 6
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Physical Description:xi, 583 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Peter J. Bailey
  • Contributor biographies and keywords
  • Biography/autobiography/auteurism. Cecilia Sayad: Standup auteur
  • Colleen Glenn: Which Woody Allen?
  • Gilles Menegaldo: Woody Allen and France
  • Christopher Knight: Raging in the dark: late style in Woody Allen's films
  • John Macready: "A difficult redemption: facing the other in Woody Allen's exilic period
  • Robert M. Polhemus: Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody Allen
  • Movies about the movies. Stephen Papson: Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen
  • Gregg Bachman: Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity
  • Claire Sisco King: Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films
  • Christopher Ames: Hollywood endings: Woody Allen on Hollywood, filmmaking, and happy endings
  • Allen and his sisters: cultural critiques. Cynthia Lucia: "Here-- it's not their cup of tea": Woody Allen's melodramatic tendencies in Interiors, September, Another woman, and Alice
  • Joanna E. Rapf: It's complicated, really: women in the films of Woody Allen
  • Renee R. Curry: Vicky Blanca, Cristina Blanca, Barcelona Blanca
  • Katherine Fusco: Love and citation in Midnight in Paris: remembering modernism, remembering Woody
  • Influences/intertextualities. William Brigham: Taking the tortoise for a walk: Woody Allen as flaneur
  • Iris Bruce: Lurking in shadows: Kleinman's trial and defense
  • William Hutchings: Woody Allen and the literary canon
  • J. Andrew Gothard: Who's he when he's at home?: a census of literary, philosophical and artistic allusions in Woody Allen's film
  • Menachem Feuer: The schlemiel in Woody Allen's films
  • Brian Bergen-Aurand: Barcelona: city of refuge
  • Philosophy/religion. Mark T. Conard: Woody Allen and the (false) dichotomy of science and religion
  • David Detmer: The philosopher as filmmaker
  • Patrick Murray and Jeanne A. Schuler: Disappearing act: the trick philosophy of Woody Allen
  • Sander Lee: Love, meaning, and God in the later films of Woody Allen
  • Monica Osborne: Hollywood rabbi: probing the never-ending questions of Woody Allen
  • richard A. Blake: Woody Allen's random universe in his European cycle: morality, marriage, magic
  • Afterword / Sam B. Girgus.