Companion to Woody Allen by Bailey, Peter J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors Title page Copyright page Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: Biography/Autobiography/Auteurism

1: The Stand-up Auteur

The Place of the Auteur in American Film Culture The Auteur as Commentator Stardust Memories: The Auteur between Distrust and Desire Acknowledgments

2: Which Woody Allen?

Woody, a Star? Woody vs. Woody Woody, Post-Scandal Playing Woody Allen Acknowledgments

3: Woody Allen and France

Aspects of the Representation of French Culture in Allen’s Films Building Up the Persona Allen and French Cinema Truffaut, Godard, and Others Aspects of Allen’s Critical Reception in France

4: “Raging in the Dark”: Late Style in Woody Allen’s Films 5: A Difficult Redemption: Facing the Other in Woody Allen’s Exilic Period 6: Comic Faith and Its Discontents: Death and the Late Woody

PART II: Movies about the Movies

7: Critical Theory and the Cinematic World of Woody Allen

Zelig: Reflections on the Cultural Landscape From Interiors to Radio Days: An Exploration into Art and Culture Celebrity, Negotiating Identity Conclusion

8: Crimes and Misdemeanors: Reflections on Reflexivity 9: Play it Again, Woody: Self-Reflexive Critique in Contemporary Woody Allen Films

Celluloid Memories Have We Met Before? Talking in Circles The Way They Were That’s the End?

10: Jazz Heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood Ending

Moral and Aesthetic Blindness (Crimes and Misdemeanors and Hollywood Ending) The Framed Screen (The Purple Rose of Cairo and Stardust Memories)

PART III: Allen and His Sisters: Cultural Critiques

11: “Here . . . It’s Not Their Cup of Tea”: Woody Allen’s Melodramatic Tendencies in Interiors, September, Another Woman, and Alice

Woody’s Melodramatic Tendencies Motherhood, Family, and Its Complications: Inscriptions and Revisions of the Family and Maternal Melodramas in Interiors and September Dreamscapes and Realities: Paranoid Spaces and Female Agency/Passivity

12: “It’s Complicated, Really”: Women in the Films of Woody Allen

Manhattan: Three Types of Women Hannah and Her Sisters: Pregnant Women and Controlling Men Another Woman: “You Must Change Your Life” Vicky Cristina Barcelona: “Chronic Dissatisfaction” Whatever Works: It’s a Matter of Luck Conclusion: “It’s Complicated”

13: Woody Allen’s Grand Scheme: The Whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona 14: Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: Remembering Modernism, Remembering Woody

Shoring up Fragments: Allen, Eliot, and Modernist Citation No Warts, Not At All: Historical Blindness and Modernist Biographies It’s Delovely: Depthless Citation “Very Pretty Lyrics”: Midnight in Paris’s Modernist Tour Book Just Desserts: Upon Midnight, Recalling Woody

PART IV: Influences/Intertextualities

15: Taking the Tortoise for a Walk: Woody Allen as Flâneur 16: Lurking in Shadows: Kleinman’s Trial and Defense

Kafkaesque Wake-up Calls and Trials: The Spectre of Anti-Semitism Kleinman’s Expressionist Nightmare Shadows of the Holocaust and Beyond

17: Woody Allen and the Literary Canon

Crossing the Literary Divide Russian Influences Kafka and Other Absurdists

18: “Who’s He When He’s at Home?”: A Census of Woody Allen’s Literary, Philosophical, and Artistic Allusions

Census of Woody Allen’s Allusions

19: The Schlemiel in Woody Allen’s Later Films

The Schlemiel and Autonomy: From Moses Mendelssohn to Woody Allen Blindness and Insight Mitigated Skepticism The “Parisian Dream” Conclusion

20: Barcelona: City of Refuge

Cities of Refuge Set in Barcelona Barcelona, New York, Barcelona

PART V: Philosophy/Religion

21: Woody Allen and the (False) Dichotomy of Science and Religion

Allen’s Flux Metaphysics Allen’s Epistemological Claims The Meaning and Value of Life Responses The False Dichotomy

22: The Philosopher as Filmmaker

Allen’s Philosophical Claims Film and Philosophy Assessing Allen’s Philosophical Claims Conclusion Acknowledgments

23: Disappearing Act: The Trick Philosophy of Woody Allen

How the Factoring Philosophy Makes the World Disappear Woody Allen’s Existentialism David Hume as the Consummate Trick Philosopher Skepticism’s Instability Skepticism and Freethinking: Oscillating between Incompatibles Global Skepticism’s Philosophical and Artistic Dead Ends How to Live if All Values Are Strictly Subjective Reflecting on “Life’s Shortness and Uncertainty” Counterworking “the Artifice of Nature” Problems with Projection Theory – But Not to Worry Acknowledgments

24: Love, Meaning, and God in the Later Films of Woody Allen

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2009) Cassandra’s Dream (2007) Conclusion

25: Hollywood Rabbi: The Never-Ending Questions of Woody Allen 26: Allen’s Random Universe in His European Cycle: Morality, Marriage, Magic

Afterword: The Abyss: Woody Allen on Love, Death, and God

The Abyss Divine Comedy Exile

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