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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bailey, Peter J., 1946-

Girgus, Sam B., 1941-

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors ; 6

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allen, Woody--Criticism and interpretation.

Allen, Woody.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (597 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director's films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which his work is understood. A timely companion by the authors of two of the most important books on Allen to dateIlluminates the films of Woody Allen from a number of divergent critical perspectivesExplores the contexts in which his work should be understoodAssesses Allen's remarkable filmmaking career from its early b

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: Hollywood endings: Woody Allen on Hollywood, filmmaking, and happy endings

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: Vicky Blanca, Cristina Blanca, Barcelona Blanca

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 flaneur

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 literary, philosophical and artistic allusions in Woody Allen's film

Menachem Feuer: The schlemiel in Woody Allen's 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 / Sam B. Girgus.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78539-403-7

1-118-51489-0

1-118-51487-4

1-299-24134-4

1-118-51486-6

OCLC:

829460549