Films of Woody Allen (eBook)

Critical Essays

Charles L.P. Silet (Herausgeber)

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2006
258 Seiten
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-1-4616-7283-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Charles L. P. Silet teaches film in the Department of English at Iowa State University. He has published 15 books, including The Films of Steven Spielberg (Scarecrow, 2002).

Inhalt

Part 1 AcknowledgmentsPart 2 IntroductionPart 3 ChronologyPart 4 Part 1: General EssaysChapter 5 1. Woody Allen's Lovable Anxious SchlemielsChapter 6 2. Woody Allen's New YorkChapter 7 3. The Narrator and the Narrative: The Evolution of Woody Allen's Film ComediesChapter 8 4. Woody Allen's Theological ImaginationChapter 9 5. Woody Allen's Comic IronyChapter 10 6. Self-Deprecation and the Jewish Humor of Woody AllenChapter 11 7. Beyond Parody: Woody Allen in the 1980sPart 12 Part 2: Individual FilmsChapter 13 8. Woody Allen and Fantasy: Play It Again, SamChapter 14 9. Love and Death and Food: Woody Allen's Comic Use of GastronomyChapter 15 10. Powerful Man Gets Pretty Woman: Style Switching in Annie HallChapter 16 11. Annie Hall and the Issue of ModernismChapter 17 12. Autumn Interiors, or the Ladies Eve: Woody Allen's Bergman ComplexChapter 18 13. Woody Allen's Manhattan and the Ethicity of NarrativeChapter 19 14. Ciao, Woody: Stardust MemoriesChapter 20 15. Painful Laughter: The Collapse of Humor in Woody Allen's Stardust MemoriesChapter 21 16. Mysterious Illnesses of Human Commodities in Woody Allen and Franz Kafka: ZeligChapter 22 17. Zelig and Contemporary Theory: Meditation on the Chameleon TextChapter 23 18. Woody's Mild Irish Rose: Broadway Danny RoseChapter 24 19. Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and the Tradition of MetafictionChapter 25 20. Woody Allen's Interiors: The Dark Side of Hannah and Her SistersChapter 26 21. The Religion of Radio DaysChapter 27 22. Hlenka Regained: Irony and Ambiguity in the Narrator of Woody Allen's Another WomanChapter 28 23. Justice and the Withdrawal of God in Woody Allen's Crimes and MisdemeanorsChapter 29 24. Between Time and Eternity: Theological Notes on Shadows and FogPart 30 FilmographyPart 31 IndexPart 32 About the ContributorsPart 33 About the Editor

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-7283-X / 146167283X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-7283-8 / 9781461672838