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. With a special emphasis on his films of the 1980s, this collection includes both general essays that examine various themes and issues encompassed in Allen's repertoire, as well as discussions that focus on one or two specific films.
General essays explore Allen's Jewish background as a religious and cultural facet, his apparent love affair with New York City, and his relation to various strains of humor-particularly American film humor, but also Allen's broad use of such traditional comic tropes as irony and parody. The essays on individual films include examinations of some of Allen's most significant work including Love and Death, Annie Hall, Interiors, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan, and Shadows and Fog.
A number of the articles collected here were originally published in now hard to locate places, while others were selected from journals not usually associated with film studies. The result is an anthology of essays that presents an overview of the central issues raised by Allen's body of work as well as a close examination of fourteen individual films that convey these larger themes. A wide-ranging exploration of one of America's most innovative and productive modern directors, this book should appeal to both professionals and students of contemporary film comedy.
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Film & VideoTable of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- 1 - Woody Allen’s Lovable Anxious Schlemiels
- 2 - Woody Allen’s New York
- 3 - The Narrator and the Narrative
- 4 - Woody Allen’s Theological Imagination
- 5 - Woody Allen’s Comic Irony
- 6 - Self-Deprecation and the Jewish Humor of Woody Allen
- 7 - Beyond Parody
- 8 - Woody Allen and Fantasy
- 9 - Love and Death and Food
- 10 - Powerful Man Gets Pretty Woman
- 11 - Annie Hall and the Issue of Modernism
- 12 - Autumn Interiors, or the Ladies Eve
- 13 - Woody Allen’s Manhattan and the Ethicity of Narrative
- 14 - Ciao, Woody
- 15 - Painful Laughter
- 16 - Mysterious Illnesses of Human Commodities in Woody Allen and Franz Kafka
- 17 - Zelig and Contemporary Theory
- 18 - Woody’s Mild Irish Rose
- 19 - Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and the Tradition of Metafiction
- 20 - Woody Allen’s Interiors
- 21 - The Religion of Radio Days
- 22 - Hlenka Regained
- 23 - Justice and the Withdrawal of God in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors
- 24 - Between Time and Eternity
- Filmography
- Index
- About the Contributors
- About the Editor
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