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The Films of Woody Allen
Critical Essays
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2006
Summary
From What's Up, Tiger Lily? to Match Point, Woody Allen's work has generated substantial interest among scholars and professionals who have written extensively about the director. In The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays, Charles L.P. Silet brings together two-dozen scholarly articles that address the core of Allen's work from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives. With a special emphasis on his films of the 1980s, this collection includes both general essays that examine various themes and issues encompassed in Allen's repertoire, as well as discussions that focus on one or two specific films. General essays explore Allen's Jewish background as a religious and cultural facet, his apparent love affair with New York City, and his relation to various strains of humor_particularly American film humor, but also Allen's broad use of such traditional comic tropes as irony and parody. The essays on individual films include examinations of some of Allen's most significant work including Love and Death, Annie Hall, Interiors, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan, and Shadows and Fog. A number of the articles collected here were originally published in now hard to locate places, while others were selected from journals not usually associated with film studies. The result is an anthology of essays that presents an overview of the central issues raised by Allen's body of work as well as a close examination of fourteen individual films that convey these larger themes. A wide-ranging exploration of one of America's most innovative and productive modern directors, this book should appeal to both professionals and students of contemporary film comedy.
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Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-5736-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-7283-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
343
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chronology No access
1 Woody Allen's Lovable Anxious Schlemiels Sanford Pinsker No access
2 Woody Allen's New York Leonard Quart No access
3 The Narrator and the Narrative: The Evolution of Woody Allen's Film Comedies Celestino Deleyto No access
4 Woody Allen's Theological Imagination Gary Commins No access
5 Woody Allen's Comic Irony Christopher Morris No access
6 Self-Deprecation and the Jewish Humor of Woody Allen Mark E. Bleiweiss No access
7 Beyond Parody: Woody Allen in the 1980s Maurice Yacowar No access
8 Woody Allen and Fantasy: Play It Again, Sam Wes D. Gehring No access
9 Love and Death and Food: Woody Allen's Comic Use of Gastronomy Ronald D. LeBlanc No access
10 Powerful Man Gets Pretty Woman: Style Switching in Annie Hall Devin Brown No access
11 Annie Hall and the Issue of Modernism Thomas Schatz No access
12 Autumn Interiors, or the Ladies Eve: Woody Allen's Bergman Complex Bert Cardullo No access
13 Woody Allen's Manhattan and the Ethicity of Narrative Christopher J. Knight No access
14 Ciao, Woody: Stardust Memories Louis Giannetti No access
15 Painful Laughter: The Collapse of Humor in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories Paul Lewis No access
16 Mysterious Illnesses of Human Commodities in Woody Allen and Franz Kafka: Zelig Iris Bruce No access
17 Zelig and Contemporary Theory: Meditation on the Chameleon Text Robert Stam and Ella Shohat No access
18 Woody's Mild Irish Rose: Broadway Danny Rose Peter J. Bailey No access
19 Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and the Tradition of Metafiction Michael Dunne No access
20 Woody Allen's Interiors: The Dark Side of Hannah and Her Sisters Diane Snow No access
21 The Religion of Radio Days Maurice Yacowar No access
22 Hlenka Regained: Irony and Ambiguity in the Narrator of Woody Allen's Another Woman Maria del Mar Asensio Arostegui No access
23 Justice and the, Withdrawal of God in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors Mark W. Roche No access
24 Between Time and Eternity: Theological Notes on Shadows, and Fog Paul Nathanson No access
Filmography No access Pages 299 - 322
Index No access Pages 323 - 334
About the Contributors No access Pages 335 - 338
About the Editor No access Pages 339 - 343
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