Includes bibliographical references and index. Filmography: p. 259-260.
Contents:
Act I: morality, interpretation, and the meaning of life -- God, suicide, and the meaning of life in the films of Woody Allen / Mark T. Conrad -- Integrity in Woody Allen's Manhattan / Aeon J. Skoble -- Does morality have to be blind? : a Kantian analysis of crimes and misdemeanors / James Lawler -- Arguing interpretations : the pragmatic optimism of Woody Allen / Ian Jarvie -- Act II: Woody's craft -- The mousetrap : reading Woody Allen / James Wallace -- Woody on aesthetic appreciation / Jaspm Holt -- Art and voyeurism in the films of Woody Allen / Jerold Abrams -- "You don't deserve Cole Porter" : love and music according to Woody Allen / James South -- Dead sharks and dynamite ham : the philosophical use of humor in Annie Hall / Lou Ascione -- Reconstructing Ingmar : the aesthetic purging of the great model / Per Broman -- Act III: five films -- The dangers of Hedonism : a midsummer night's sex comedy / Sander Lee -- Inauthenticity and personal identity in Zelig / David Detmer -- It's all darkness : Plato, the ring of gyges, and crimes and misdemeanors / John Pappas -- Self knowledge in another woman / Jill Gordon -- Woody Allen's film noir light : self-knowledge, crime, and love in the curse of the jade scorpion / Mary P. Nichols.
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