A companion to Woody Allen
By: edited by Peter J. Bailey and Sam B. Girgus
Series: Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
ISBN-13: 9781444337235
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Peter J. Bailey; title: Contributor biographies and keywords; title: Biography/autobiography/auteurism. Cecilia Sayad: Standup auteur; title: Colleen Glenn: Which Woody Allen?; title: Gilles Menegaldo: Woody Allen and France; title: Christopher Knight: Raging in the dark: late style in Woody Allen's films; title: John Macready: "A difficult redemption: facing the other in Woody Allen's exilic period; title: Robert M. Polhemus: Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody  Allen; title: Movies about the movies. Stephen Papson: Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen; title: Gregg Bachman: Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity; title: Claire Sisco King: Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films; title: Christopher Ames: Hollywood endings: Woody Allen on Hollywood, filmmaking, and happy endings; title: Allen and his sisters: cultural critiques. Cynthia Lucia: "Here; title: it's not their cup of tea": Woody Allen's melodramatic tendencies in Interiors, September, Another woman, and Alice; title: Joanna E. Rapf: It's complicated, really: women in the films of Woody Allen; title: Renee R. Curry: Vicky Blanca, Cristina Blanca, Barcelona Blanca; title: Katherine Fusco: Love and citation in Midnight in Paris: remembering modernism, remembering Woody; title: Influences/intertextualities. William Brigham: Taking the tortoise for a walk: Woody Allen as flaneur; title: Iris Bruce: Lurking in shadows: Kleinman's trial and defense; title: William Hutchings: Woody Allen and the literary canon; title: J. Andrew Gothard: Who's he when he's at home?: a census of literary, philosophical and artistic allusions in Woody Allen's film; title: Menachem Feuer: The schlemiel in Woody Allen's films; title: Brian Bergen-Aurand: Barcelona: city of refuge; title: Philosophy/religion. Mark T. Conard: Woody Allen and the (false) dichotomy of science and religion; title: David Detmer: The philosopher as filmmaker; title: Patrick Murray and Jeanne A. Schuler: Disappearing act: the trick philosophy of Woody Allen; title: Sander Lee: Love, meaning, and God in the later films of Woody Allen; title: Monica Osborne: Hollywood rabbi: probing the never-ending questions of Woody Allen; title: richard A. Blake: Woody Allen's random universe in his European cycle: morality, marriage, magic; title: Afterword / Sam B. Girgus.