The Films of Woody Allen

Critical Essays
Herausgeber: Silet, Charles L. P.

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Produktbeschreibung

From What's Up, Tiger Lily? to Match Point, Woody Allen's work has generated substantial interest among scholars and professionals who have written extensively about the director. In The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays, Charles L.P. Silet brings together two-dozen scholarly articles that address the core of Allen's work from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780810857360
• ISBN-10: 0810857367
• Artikelnr.: 21483318

Autorenporträt

Charles L. P. Silet teaches film in the Department of English at Iowa State University. He has published 15 books, including The Films of Steven Spielberg (Scarecrow, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Chronology Part 4 Part 1:
General Essays Chapter 5 1. Woody Allen's Lovable Anxious Schlemiels
Chapter 6 2. Woody Allen's New York Chapter 7 3. The Narrator and the
Narrative: The Evolution of Woody Allen's Film Comedies Chapter 8 4. Woody
Allen's Theological Imagination Chapter 9 5. Woody Allen's Comic Irony
Chapter 10 6. Self-Deprecation and the Jewish Humor of Woody Allen Chapter
11 7. Beyond Parody: Woody Allen in the 1980s Part 12 Part 2: Individual
Films Chapter 13 8. Woody Allen and Fantasy: Play It Again, Sam Chapter 14
9. Love and Death and Food: Woody Allen's Comic Use of Gastronomy Chapter
15 10. Powerful Man Gets Pretty Woman: Style Switching in Annie Hall
Chapter 16 11. Annie Hall and the Issue of Modernism Chapter 17 12. Autumn
Interiors, or the Ladies Eve: Woody Allen's Bergman Complex Chapter 18 13.
Woody Allen's Manhattan and the Ethicity of Narrative Chapter 19 14. Ciao,
Woody: Stardust Memories Chapter 20 15. Painful Laughter: The Collapse of
Humor in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories Chapter 21 16. Mysterious
Illnesses of Human Commodities in Woody Allen and Franz Kafka: Zelig
Chapter 22 17. Zelig and Contemporary Theory: Meditation on the Chameleon
Text Chapter 23 18. Woody's Mild Irish Rose: Broadway Danny Rose Chapter 24
19. Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and the Tradition of
Metafiction Chapter 25 20. Woody Allen's Interiors: The Dark Side of Hannah
and Her Sisters Chapter 26 21. The Religion of Radio Days Chapter 27 22.
Hlenka Regained: Irony and Ambiguity in the Narrator of Woody Allen's
Another Woman Chapter 28 23. Justice and the Withdrawal of God in Woody
Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors Chapter 29 24. Between Time and Eternity:
Theological Notes on Shadows and Fog Part 30 Filmography Part 31 Index Part
32 About the Contributors Part 33 About the Editor