A companion to Woody Allen

✍ Scribed by Allen, Woody;Bailey, Peter J.;Girgus, Sam B

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2015;2013
• Tongue: English
• Series: Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors
• Edition: Enhanced Credo edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Peter J. Bailey -- Part I. Biography/autobiography/auteurism: 1. The stand-up auteur / Cecilia Sayad; 2. Which Woody Allen? / Colleen Glenn; 3. Woody Allen and France / Gilles Menegaldo; 4. "Raging in the dark": late style in Woody Allen's films / Christopher J. Knight; 5. A difficult redemption: facing the other in Woody Allen's exilic period / John Douglas Macready; 6. Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody / Robert M. Polhemus -- Part II. Movies about the movies: 7. Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen / Stephen Papson; 8. Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity / Gregg Bachman; 9. Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films / Claire Sisco King; 10. Jazz heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood ending / Christopher Ames -- Part III. Allen and his sisters: cultural critiques: 11. "Here -- it's not their cup of tea": Woody Allen's melodramatic tendencies in Interiors, September, Another woman, and Alice / Cynthia Lucia; 12. "It's complicated, really": women in the films of Woody Allen / Joanna E. Rapf; 13. Woody Allen's grand scheme: the whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona / Renée R. Curry; 14. Love and citation in Midnight in Paris: remembering modernism, remembering Woody / Katherine Fusco.

✦ Table of Contents

Notes on contributors --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction / Peter J. Bailey --
Part I. Biography/autobiography/auteurism: 1. The stand-up auteur / Cecilia Sayad
2. Which Woody Allen? / Colleen Glenn
3. Woody Allen and France / Gilles Menegaldo
4. "Raging in the dark": late style in Woody Allen's films / Christopher J. Knight
5. A difficult redemption: facing the other in Woody Allen's exilic period / John Douglas Macready
6. Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody / Robert M. Polhemus --
Part II. Movies about the movies: 7. Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen / Stephen Papson
8. Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity / Gregg Bachman
9. Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films / Claire Sisco King
10. Jazz heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood ending / Christopher Ames --
Part III. Allen and his sisters: cultural critiques: 11. "Here --
it's not their cup of tea": Woody Allen's melodramatic tendencies in Interiors, September, Another woman, and Alice / Cynthia Lucia
12. "It's complicated, really": women in the films of Woody Allen / Joanna E. Rapf
13. Woody Allen's grand scheme: the whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona / Renée R. Curry
14. Love and citation in Midnight in Paris: remembering modernism, remembering Woody / Katherine Fusco. Part IV. Influences/intertextualities: 15. Taking the tortoise for a walk: Woody Allen as flaneur William Brigham
16. Lurking in shadows: Kleinman's trial and defense / Iris Bruce
17. Woody Allen and the literary canon / William Hutchings
18. "Who's he when he's at home?": a census of Woody Allen's literary, philosophical, and artistic allusions / J. Andrew Gothard
19. The schlemiel in Woody Allen's later films / Menachem Feuer
20. Barcelona: city of refuge / Brian Bergen-Aurand --
Part V. Philosophy/religion: 21. Woody Allen and the (false) dichotomy of science and religion / Mark T. Conard
22. The philosopher as filmmaker / David Detmer
23. Disappearing act: the trick philosophy of Woody Allen / Patrick Murray, Jeanne A. Schuler
24. Love, meaning, and God in the later films of Woody Allen / Sander Lee
25. Hollywood Rabbi: the never-ending questions of Woody Allen / Monica Osborne
26. Allen's random universe in his European Cycle: morality, marriage, magic / Richard A. Blake
27. Afterword: The abyss: Woody Allen on love, death, and God / Sam B. Girgus.

✦ Subjects

Electronic books;Criticism, interpretation, etc;Allen, Woody -- Criticism and interpretation;Allen, Woody, -- 1935