A Companion to Woody Allen

Eds.: Peter J. Bailey and Sam B. Girgus

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributions in this collection illuminate the films of Allen from a number of divergent critical perspectives, while seeking to expand the contexts in which his work is understood. The essays discuss the relationship between Allen the filmmaker and his screen persona, films Allen has made about filmmakers and filmmaking, the depiction of female subjectivity in his more recent films, his influences, and the comical aspect of Allen's films. Critical approaches range from the formalistic to the highly postmodern, and this lively, wide-ranging volume assesses his remarkable filmmaking career by exploring its evolution and development and acknowledging the conflicts and contradictions that suffuse it.

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Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to WoodyAllen presents a collection of 26 original essays on thedirector's films. Contributions offer a number of divergentcritical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which hiswork is understood.

A timely companion by the authors of two of the most importantbooks on Allen to date
Illuminates the films of Woody Allen from a number of divergentcritical perspectives
Explores the contexts in which his work should beunderstood
Assesses Allen's remarkable filmmaking career from itsearly beginnings and investigates the conflicts and contradictionsthat suffuse it
Discusses Allen's recognition as a global cinematicfigure

Produktdetails

• Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors (WBCF) .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A444337230
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 177mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1213g
• ISBN-13: 9781444337235
• ISBN-10: 1444337238
• Artikelnr.: 36899883

Autorenporträt

Peter Bailey is Frank P. Piskor Professor of English at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he has taught American Literature, creative writing and film studies for 32 years. In addition to The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (2001), he is the author of Reading Stanley Elkin (1986) and Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike's Fiction (2006). He has also published on Frank Conroy, Robert Coover, Joan Didion, Frederick Exley, John Irving, and Ronald Sukenick, and he is secretary of the national John Updike Society. Sam B. Girgus is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is a prolific author whose publications include The Films of Woody Allen (2nd edition, 2002) and Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine (2010). He also has edited several works, including The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture (1981). He is a recipient of a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship and other scholarly and teaching awards, and has lectured and taught extensively in universities throughout America and the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1 Peter J.
Bailey Part I Biography/Autobiography/Auteurism 13 1 The Stand-up Auteur 15
Cecilia Sayad 2 Which Woody Allen? 35 Colleen Glenn 3 Woody Allen and
France 53 Gilles Menegaldo 4 "Raging in the Dark": Late Style in Woody
Allen's Films 73 Christopher J. Knight 5 A Difficult Redemption: Facing the
Other in Woody Allen's Exilic Period 95 John Douglas Macready 6 Comic Faith
and Its Discontents: Death and the Late Woody 116 Robert M. Polhemus Part
II Movies about the Movies 145 7 Critical Theory and the Cinematic World of
Woody Allen 147 Stephen Papson 8 Crimes and Misdemeanors: Reflections on
Refl exivity 170 Gregg Bachman 9 Play it Again, Woody: Self-Reflexive
Critique in Contemporary Woody Allen Films 188 Claire Sisco King 10 Jazz
Heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood Ending 207 Christopher Ames Part III
Allen and His Sisters: Cultural Critiques 227 11 "Here . . . It's Not Their
Cup of Tea": Woody Allen's Melodramatic Tendencies in Interiors, September,
Another Woman, and Alice 229 Cynthia Lucia 12 "It's Complicated, Really":
Women in the Films of Woody Allen 257 Joanna E. Rapf 13 Woody Allen's Grand
Scheme: The Whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona 277 Renée R.
Curry 14 Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: Remembering Modernism,
Remembering Woody 294 Katherine Fusco Part IV Influences/Intertextualities
319 15 Taking the Tortoise for a Walk: Woody Allen as Flâneur 321 William
Brigham 16 Lurking in Shadows: Kleinman's Trial and Defense 339 Iris Bruce
17 Woody Allen and the Literary Canon 359 William Hutchings 18 "Who's He
When He's at Home?": A Census of Woody Allen's Literary, Philosophical, and
Artistic Allusions 381 J. Andrew Gothard 19 The Schlemiel in Woody Allen's
Later Films 403 Menachem Feuer 20 Barcelona: City of Refuge 424 Brian
Bergen-Aurand Part V Philosophy/Religion 441 21 Woody Allen and the (False)
Dichotomy of Science and Religion 443 Mark T. Conard 22 The Philosopher as
Filmmaker 460 David Detmer 23 Disappearing Act: The Trick Philosophy of
Woody Allen 481 Patrick Murray and Jeanne A. Schuler 24 Love, Meaning, and
God in the Later Films of Woody Allen 504 Sander Lee 25 Hollywood Rabbi:
The Never-Ending Questions of Woody Allen 520 Monica Osborne 26 Allen's
Random Universe in His European Cycle: Morality, Marriage, Magic 539
Richard A. Blake 27 Afterword: The Abyss: Woody Allen on Love, Death, and
God 559 Sam B. Girgus Index 573

Rezensionen

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above." -- Choice, 1 October 2013

"I recommend this book for academic libraries that support upper-level film studies, media and literature programmes." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014)

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 October 2013)