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Title:

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

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xi, 583 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Allen, Woody--Criticism and interpretation.

Other Authors:

Bailey, Peter J., 1946- editor of compilation.
Girgus, Sam B., 1941- editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: Jazz heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood ending -- 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: Woody Allen's grand scheme: The whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona -- 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 fl©Øneur -- 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 Woody Allen's literary, philosophical and artistic allusions -- Menachem Feuer: The schlemiel in Woody Allen's later 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: The abyss: Woody Allen on love, death, and God / Sam B. Girgus.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors

ISBN:

1444337238 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781444337235 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)815374596

LCCN:

2012042384

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)