04643nam 2200613 a 450 991082263360332120240313151516.01-78539-403-71-118-51489-01-118-51487-41-299-24134-41-118-51486-6(CKB)2670000000336828(EBL)1129730(OCoLC)829460549(SSID)ssj0000831843(PQKBManifestationID)11512013(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000831843(PQKBWorkID)10881911(PQKB)10191240(MiAaPQ)EBC1129730(Au-PeEL)EBL1129730(CaPaEBR)ebr10662559(EXLCZ)99267000000033682820121127d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to Woody Allen /edited by Peter J. Bailey and Sam B. Girgus1st ed.Chichester, U.K. Wiley-Blackwell20131 online resource (597 p.)880-03Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directorsWiley-Blackwell companions to film directors ;6Description based upon print version of record.1-4443-3723-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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 bWiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors791.43092778.253njb/09791.43092njb/09Bailey Peter J.1946-1704891Girgus Sam B.1941-700141MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822633603321A companion to Woody Allen4091175UNINA