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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
I. What Is Existentialism?
II. What About the Allen Films Not Covered in This Book?
INTRODUCTION: WHY STUDY WOODY ALLEN?
I. Allen as Philosopher
II. What Makes a Film Study Philosophical?
III. Allen as “Auteur”?
IV. Other Critical Works on Allen
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“A THIN STORY TO HANG THE COMEDY SEQUENCES ON”: The Early Comedies
I. What’s New, Pussycat? (1965)
II. Take the Money and Run (1969)
III. Bananas (1971)
IV. Play It Again, Sam (1972)
V. Sleeper (1973)
VI. Love and Death (1975)
VII. The Front (1976)
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A THERAPEUTIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Annie Hall (1977)
I. “Boy, If Life Were Only Like This!”
II. Sartrean Influences
III. Death and Denial
IV. Love’s Lessons
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THEMES OF REDEMPTION: Manhattan (1979)
I. Yale
II. Mary
III. Jill
IV. Tracy
V. Themes of Redemption
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BETRAYAL AND DESPAIR: The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
I. Kugelmass and Cecilia
II. The Ephemeral Tom Baxter
III. Trapped in a World They Didn’t Create
IV. Gil Shepherd and the Theme of the Doppelgänger
V. Betrayal and Despair
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“WE ALL HAD A TERRIFIC TIME”: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
I. God, She’s Beautiful… We All Had a Terrific Time The Hypochondriac
II. The Stanislawski Catering Company in Action Nobody, Not Even the Rain, Has Such Small Hands The Anxiety of the Man in the Booth
III. Dusty Just Bought This Huge House in Southampton The Abyss The Only Absolute Knowledge Attainable by Man Is That Life Is Meaningless
IV. Afternoon The Audition The Leap
V. Summer in New York Autumn Chill Lucky I Ran Into You
VI. One Year Later
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“JUST ALLOW YOURSELF TO FEEL”: Another Woman (1988)
I. If Something Seems to Be Working, Leave It Alone!
II. An Anguished, Heart-Wrenching Sound
III. The Black Panther
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TRADITION: New York Stories, “Oedipus Wrecks” (1989)
I. Mills or Millstein?
II. Sadie in the Sky
III. Tradition
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“IF NECESSARY, I WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE GOD OVER TRUTH!”: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
I. Judah’s Crime
II. The Seder
III. Cliff Stern and Louis Levy
IV. You’ve Seen Too Many Movies
V. And Yet…
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LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST: Husbands and Wives (1992)
I. Sartre’s Theory of the Emotions
II. Love’s Labor’s Lost
III. The Beginning of the End
IV. The Hedgehog and the Fox
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“DON’T SPEAK!”: Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
I. Where Does Talent Come From?
II. Art Has Its Price
III. Is Morality Available Only to the Talentless?
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“WHEN YOU’RE SMILING”: Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
I. Lenny and Linda
II. Destiny Takes a Hand
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DISTORTED LIVES: Deconstructing Harry (1997)
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CONCLUSION: The Dialectic of Hope and Despair
I. Criticisms
II. A Sartrean Ethics
III. An Existential Answer to Allen’s Critics
IV. Joy, Simplicity, and Hope
APPENDIX: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH WOODY ALLEN
How This Exchange Came About
The Transcript
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF NAMES AND TERMS
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