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The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. That Old Black Magic: Woody Allen’s Ambivalent Artistry
- 2. Strictly the Movies: Play It Again, Sam
- 3. Getting Serious: The Antimimetic Emblems of Annie Hall
- 4. Art and Idealization: I’ll Fake Manhattan
- 5. Strictly the Movies II: How Radio Days Generated Nights at the Movies
- 6. Life Stand Still Here: Interiors Dialogue
- 7. In the Stardust of a Song: Stardust Memories
- 8. Woody’s Mild Jewish Rose: Broadway Danny Rose
- 9. The Fine Art of Living Well: Hannah and Her Sisters
- 10. If You Want a Hollywood Ending: Crimes and Misdemeanors
- 11. Everyone Loves Her/His Illusions: The Purple Rose of Cairo and Shadows and Fog
- 12. Poetic License, Bullshit: Bullets Over Broadway
- 13. Let’s Just Live It: Woody Allen in the 1990s
- 14. Because It’s Real Difficult in Life: Husbands and Wives
- 15. Rear Condo: Manhattan Murder Mystery
- 16. That Voodoo That You Do So Well: Mighty Aphrodite
- 17. And What a Perfect Plot: Everyone Says I Love You and Zelig
- 18. How We Choose to Distort It: Deconstructing Harry
- 19. From the Neck Up: Another Woman and Celebrity
- 20. Allen and His Audience: Sweet and Lowdown
- 21. Confrontation and Escape: Allen’s Twenty-First-Century Meditations on Comedy and Tragedy
- 22. The Magic of Luck: Scoop, Magic in the Moonlight, and Match Point
- 23. The Heart Still Wants What It Wants: Vicky Cristina Barcelona and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
- 24. “People Reinvent Themselves, Don’t They?”: Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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