Index
Titles of films are entered with the director’s name in parentheses, e.g., Bananas (Allen).
Abrams, Jerold
Adolfsson, R.
Adorno, Theodore W.
advertising
aesthetics
Affron, Charles
African Spaniards
Agee, James
Albanel, Christine
Albee, Edward
Alice (Allen)
All About My Mother (Almodóvar)
Allen, Carol
Allen, Tony
Allen, Woody
as actor
as auteur
as comedian
documentaries about
ethics and morality
family relationships
as flâneur
and France
influences on
autobiographical themes
Jewish theology and law
Nouvelle Vague cinema,
interviews
late films
motivation for filmmaking
philosophy
private life
public image
relationships with fans
reviews and criticism
in French media
self-criticism
self-reflexivity
“Woody Allen character,”
Allison, Terry L.
Alloway, Lawrence
Almodóvar, Pedro
Altman, Robert
Amago, S.
American film culture
Ames, Christopher
Amiel, Vincent
Andreu, Anne
Andrew, Dudley
Annie Hall (Allen)
narrative techniques
reviews and criticism
Another Woman (Allen)
anti-Semitism
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Anything Else (Allen)
Ardisson, Thierry
Armstrong, Louis
Arostegui, Maria del Mar
art
and comedy
definition
and high/low culture
and immortality
and values
Astaire, Fred
atheism
Audiard, Michel
audience
auteur cinema
definition
authenticity
Ayer, A.J.
Bachman, Gregg
Baecque, Antoine de
Bagnetto, Laura Angela
Bailey, Peter J.
Bananas (Allen)
Band of Outsiders (Godard)
Barcelona
Barcelona (Stillman)
Bardem, Javier
Barrault, Marie-Christine
Barthes, Roland
Basinger, Jeanine
Bassett, Angela
Baudelaire, Charles
Baxter, John
Bazin, André
beauty
Becker, Ernest
Beckett, Samuel
Benayoun, Robert
Benjamin, Walter
Bergen-Aurand, Brian
Berger, Joseph
Berger, Peter
Bergman, Ingmar
Bergo, Bettina
Bergson, Henri
Berkeley, George
Berman, M.
Bernstein, Mashey
Bhabha, Homi K.
Biale, D.
Biette, Jean-Claude
Birds, The (Hitchcock)
Biutiful (Iñárritu)
Björkman
Blake, Richard A.
Blanc, Michel
Bleiweiss, Mark
blindness
Bloch, Ernst
blood libel
Bloom, Allan
Bogart, Humphrey
Bois, Yve-Alain
Bottiroli, Giovanni
Bourdieu, Pierre
Boyarin, Daniel
Branagh, Kenneth
breaking the fourth wall
Breathless (Godard)
Brigham, William
Broadway Danny Rose (Allen)
Brod, Max
Brode, D.
Bullets Over Broadway (Allen)
Burke, Kenneth
Burr, Ty
Cadwalladr, Carole
Cahiers du cinéma, Les (journal)
Camus, Albert
Canby, Vincent
Cannes film festival
Carroll, Kathleen
Casino Royale (Allen)
Cassandra’s Dream (Allen)
Cavell, Stanley
Celebrity (Allen)
celebrity culture
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Champlin, Charles
character stereotypes see stereotypes
Chekhov, Anton
children
Ciment, Michel
circus
Cixous, Hélène
Cohen, Sarah Blacher
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
Collins, James
comedy
comic faith
Jewish humor
and tragedy
Conard, Mark T.
Cooper, Sarah
Corngold, Stanley
Craig, Megan
Crews, L.
Crickenberger, H.M.
crime
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
criticism
camp and cult criticism
critical theory
feminist criticism
French media
Cruz, Penélope
Cukor, George
Curnutt, Kirk
Curry, Renée R.
Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Allen)
Cusack, John
Dadoun, Roger
Daney, Serge
David, Larry
Day in the Country, A (Renoir)
death
and comic faith
suicide
Deconstructing Harry (Allen)
reviews and criticism
Delvaux, André
Denby, David
Derrida, Jacques
Desser, David
Dirty Pretty Things (Frears)
Doane, Mary Ann
documentaries
Dolce Vita, La (Fellini)
Donizetti, Gaetono
Donoghue, Denis
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Double, Oliver
Douglass, B.
Doukhan, Abi
Dowd, Maureen
Dunne, M.
Dyer, Richard
Ebert, Roger
Eco, Umberto
Edelstein, David
Eden, R.
editing
Eliot, T.S.
Elisir d’amore, L’ (Donizetti)
Elsaesser, Thomas
endings
Epicurus
ethics and morality
ethnicity
Everyone Says I Love You (Allen)
evil
see also ethics and morality
Ewen, Elizabet
Ewen, Stuart
exile
existentialism
factoring philosophy, definition
Farber, Manny
Farrow, Mia
fathers
Faulkner, William
Feeney, F.X.
Feldstein, Richard
Fellini, Federico
feminist criticism
feminist movement
Feuer, Menachem
film industry see American film culture
film theory
film-within-a-film
Fine, Cordelia
Fiske, John
Fitzgerald, Scott and Zelda
Flanner, Janet
flashback
Flaubert, Gustave
flux metaphysics
Folon, Jean-Michel
Ford, John
Ford, L.
fourth wall, breaking
Fox, Julian
framing
France
and high culture
media response to Woody Allen
Nouvelle Vague cinema
Frankfurt School (critical theory)
Frears, Stephen
Freethinking
see also skepticism
Friday, Jonathan
Friedman, Lester
Fromm, E.
Frus, Phyllis
Fuller, Graham
Fusco, Katherine
Galchinsky, M.
Galow, Timothy
Garbarz, Frank
Gates, Henry Louis
Gelula & Co.
Gerber, Eve
Gherkin (London)
Gilman, S.
Gilmore, R.
Girgus, Sam B.
Gleber, Anke
Glenn, Colleen
global skepticism
God
Godard, Jean-Luc
Goffman, Erving
Goldman, William
Gopnik, Adam
Gothard, J. Andrew
Goyios, Charalampos
Grand Illusion (Renoir)
Green, Daniel
Grimsted, D.
Groen, R.
guilt
Guthrie, Lee
Haberski, Raymond J.
Hampe, Barry
Hample, Stuart
Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
Harbou, Thea von
Harvey, Adam
Hedges, Inez
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin
Hemingway, Ernest
Heraclitus
Hermes, J.
Herschel, S.
Herwitz, Daniel
heuristic inquiry
Higginbotham, Adam
high and low culture
canonical writers and artists
Hill, Logan
Hirsch, Foster
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hollywood
Hollywood Ending (Allen)
Hollywood film industry see American film culture
Holocaust (Shoah)
see also anti-Semitism
Honeycutt, Kirk
Horkheimer, Max
Hornaday, Ann
Hösle, Vittorio
hospitality
Hovet, Ted
Howe, Irving
Howe, Lawrence
Hume, David
humor see comedy
Husbands and Wives (Allen)
reviews and criticism
Hutchings, William
identity
Jewish identity
Ihde, Don
immigrants
Iñárritu, Alejandro González
inequality
infidelity
Interiors (Allen)
intertextual references
canonical writers and artists
Irigaray, Luce
Itzkoff, Dave
James, Caryn
Jameson, Frederic
Jarvie, Ian
Jay, M.
jazz
Jenks, C.
Jews
humor
theology and law
Johansson, Scarlett
Johnston, Claire
Johnston, R.
Jones, J.R.
Jones, Kent
Joyce, James
Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
jump cuts
Kael, Pauline
Kafka, Franz
Kakutani, Michiko
Kant, Immanuel
Kaufman, Walter
Keaton, Buster
Keaton, Diane
Kelley, Ken
Kelley, R.E.
Kennedy, Christina
King Lear (Truffaut)
Knight, Christopher J.
Kristeva, Julia
Kruth, P.
“Kugelmass Episode, The” (Allen)
“Lady in Red, The” (song)
Lahr, John
Landau, Martin
Lang, Fritz
LaSalle, Mick
Lauder, Robert E.
Lax, Eric
Lechte, John
Lee, Sander
Lefcourt, Peter
Lengel, Kenny
Lerner, Melvin J.
Levinas, Emmanuel
Librach, Ron
Linden, George William
London (England)
Longstreet, Stephen
Love and Death (Allen)
love and sex
family relationships
infidelity
marriage
masturbation
ménage à trois
remarriage
Love on the Run (Truffaut)
Lucia, Cynthia
luck
Lumenick, L.
Lyotard, J.
MacCabe, Colin
Macready, John Douglas
magic
Manhattan (Allen)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen)
Marchand, R.
Marcuse, H.
marriage
Marxism
Masculin/féminin (Godard)
Mast, Gerald
masturbation
Match Point (Allen)
influences on
reviews and criticism
McGrath, Douglas
McLuhan, Marshall
meaning of life
Meetin’ WA (Truffaut)
Melinda and Melinda (Allen)
melodrama
ménage à trois
Menegaldo, Gilles
Merton, Robert K.
Metcalf, S.
Meyer, E.
Meyers, Erin
Michaels, Walter Benn
Midnight in Paris (Allen)
reviews and criticism
Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (Allen)
Mighty Aphrodite (Allen)
Miller, Arthur
Mills, C. Wright
misanthropy
mise-en-scène
misogyny
Mitchell, J. Allan
Mitchell, Radha
mockumentary
modernity
Modleski, Tania
Molière
montage
Moore, Roger
Morgenstern, Joel
Morris, C.
Morris, Wesley
Morse, Susan
Mostel, Zero
mothers
Moustakas, Clark E.
Mr and Mrs Smith (Hitchcock),
multiculturalism
Mulvey, Laura
murder
Murray, Patrick
music
American Songbook
jazz
opera
My Life to Live (Godard)
Naficy, Hamid
nature
New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) cinema
New York
Nguyen, Ky N.
Night and Fog (Resnais)
nihilism
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
nostalgia
Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) cinema
Oaklander, L. Nathan
Oedipus Wrecks (Allen)
O’Hehir, Andrew
O’Neill, Eithne
opera
Ophüls, Marcel
oral sex
Orr, Christopher
Orth, Zak
Osborne, Monica
O’Sullivan, Michael
Pappas, John
Papson, Stephen
Paris
Parkinson, D.
Passenger, The (Antonioni)
Pennies From Heaven (Ross)
Peretz, I.L.
Perlmutter, R.
philosophy
Picnic on the Grass (Renoir)
Piegay, Baptiste
Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Pirandello, Luigi
Pivot, Bernard
Place in the Sun, A (Stevens)
Play It Again, Sam (Allen)
Pogel, Nancy
Polhemus, Robert M.
political commentary
Positif (journal)
postmodernism
Previn, Soon-Yi
Professione: Reporter (Antonioni)
projection theory
psychiatry
Psycho (Hitchcock)
Puig, Claudia
Pulver, Andrew
punishment
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (Allen)
race
anti-Semitism
Radio Days (Allen)
Rampling, Charlotte
Rapf, Joanna E.
Rascaroli, Laura
reality cut
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Recchia, Edward
reflexivity
religion
Jewish theology
and science
Renoir, Jean
Resnais, Alain
Rich, Frank
Richard, Pierre
Riddles of the Sphinx (Mulvey)
Riesman, David
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Riverside Drive (Allen)
Robinson, David
Robson, Leo
Roche, France
Roche, Mark W.
Rodowick, David
Rogers, Ginger
romance see love and sex
Rose, Jacqueline
Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)
Rowe, Amy Carillo
Rufus
Saada, Nicolas
Said, Edward W.
Santaolalla, I.
Sarris, Andrew
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Savio, Mario
Schaeffer, Francis
Schatz, Thomas
Schickel, Richard
Schiffer, S.
schlemiels
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schuler, Jeanne A.
Schumpeter, J.
science
Scoop (Allen)
Scott, A.O.
screen passages
Seib, Kenneth
Seidman, Steve
self
September (Allen)
sex see love and sex
Sforim, Mendel Mocher
Shadows and Fog (Allen)
Shakespeare, William
shot composition
shot/reverse shot
Signs and Meanings in the Cinema (Wollen)
silencing
Sisco King, Claire
skepticism
Skoble, Aeon J.
Sleeper (Allen)
Small Time Crooks (Allen)
Sobchack, Vivian
sociocultural commentary
Sollers, Phillipe
Sontag, S.
Sophocles
Spignesi, S.J.
split screen
Sragow, Michael
Stam, Robert
stand-up comedy
Stanfield, Peter
Stardust Memories (Allen)
influences on
reviews and criticism
Staunton, Terry
Stein, Gertrude
Steiner, George
Stella Dallas (Vidor)
stereotypes
schlemiels
Stevens, Dana
Stevens, George
Stewart, Garrett
Stillman, Whit
Stolen Kisses (Truffaut)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)
Strawson, Peter F.
Strindberg, August
Stroud, Barry
structuralism
Sturges, Preston
suffering
suicide
Sullivan, Shannon
Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges)
Sweet and Lowdown (Allen)
Take the Money and Run (Allen)
Talmud
Taylor, Ella
Taylor, Greg
Tester, K.
Thoreau, Henry David
thought experiments
Threepenny Opera (Pabst)
To Woody Allen: From Europe with Love (Delvaux)
Tobias, Scott
Tobin, Yann
Todo Sobre mi Madre (Almodóvar)
Tolkin, Michael
Tolstoy, Leo
Toppman, Lawrence
Toubiana, Serge
tragedy
Trouble We’ve Seen, The (Ophüls)
Truffaut, François
Turan, Kenneth
Turner, Graeme
Tutt, Ralph
Twain, Mark
Two English Girls (Truffaut)
Tyler, Imogen
Tyler, Parker
utopias
Van Dusen, Wanda
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Allen)
Vighi, Fabio
Vigo, Jean
Villeret, Jacques
Vipond, Dianne L.
Vogel, Joseph Henry
voiceovers
Waldman, D.
Weide, Robert
Weinstein, Sol
Welch, Christopher Evan
Wells, H.G.
Wernblad, Annette
Weyergans, François
Whatever Works (Allen)
What’s New Pussycat? (Allen)
Wheelwright, Philip
white privilege
Whitfield, Stephen J.
Whyte, William
Wiene, Robert
Wiest, Dianne
Willemen, Paul
Williams, Linda
Wilson, Calvin
Wilson, E.
Wilson, Owen
Wisse, Ruth
Wollen, Peter
Woman in Red, The (Wilder)
women
agency
and the male gaze
silencing of
“Woody Allen character,”
Woody Allen Looks at 1967 (TV special)
Wright, Robert
Yacowar, Maurice
“Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This?” (Allen)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Allen)
Zacharek, Stephanie
Zelig (Allen)