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

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (597 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43092
• Classificazione: 778.253; 791.43092
• Altri autori: BaileyPeter J. <1946-> GirgusSam B. <1941->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to Woody Allen
• ISBN: 1-78539-403-7; 1-118-51489-0; 1-118-51487-4; 1-299-24134-4; 1-118-51486-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822633603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors