Sweet and Lowdown : : Woody Allen's Cinema of Regret / / Lloyd Michaels.

Over a career that has spanned more than six decades, Woody Allen has explored the emotion of regret as a response to the existentialist dilemma of not being someone else. Tracing this recurrent theme from his stand-up comedy routines and apprentice work through classics like Annie Hall, Manhattan,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 16 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Regret and the Problem of Shallowness
  • Chapter 2. Apprentice Works
  • Chapter 3. The Relationship Films
  • Chapter 4. The Murder Quartet
  • Chapter 5. The Reflexive Films
  • Chapter 6. Nostalgia
  • Chapter 7. To Remedy Regret
  • Postscript. Speculations
  • Bibliography
  • Index