The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (eBook)

Peter J. Bailey (Autor)

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2016 | 2., second edition
426 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6770-1 (ISBN)

Infos

For five decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific -- or as paradoxical -- as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) to Midnight in Paris (2011) and Blue Jasmine (2013), Allen has produced an average of one film a year; yet in many of these movies Allen reveals a progressively skeptical attitude toward both the value of art and the cultural contributions of artists.

In this second edition Peter J. Bailey extends his classic study to consider Allen's work during the twenty-first century. He illuminates how the director's decision to leave New York to shoot in European cities such as London, Paris, Rome, and Barcelona has affected his craft. He also explores Allen's shift toward younger actors and interprets the evolving critical reaction to his films -- authoritatively demonstrating why the director's lifelong project of moviemaking remains endlessly deserving of careful attention.

Autor

lt;P>Peter J. Bailey is emeritus Piskor Professor of English at St. Lawrence University. He is the author of Reading Stanley Elkin and Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike's Fiction as well as coeditor of A Companion to Woody Allen.

Inhalt

That's Old Black Magic: Woody Allen's Ambivalent ArtistryStrictly the Movies: Play It Again, SamGetting Serious: The Antimimetic Emblems of Annie HallArt and Idealization: I'll Fake ManhattanStrictly the Movies II: How Radio Days Generated Nights at the MoviesLife Stand Still Here: Interiors DialogueIn the Stardust of a Song: Stardust MemoriesWoody's Mild Jewish Rose: Broadway Danny RoseThe Fine Art of Living Well: Hannah and Her SistersIf You Want a Hollywood Ending: Crimes and MisdemeanorsEveryone Loves His/Her Illusions: The Purple Rose of Cairo and Shadows and FogPoetic License, Bullshit: Bullets Over BroadwayLet's Just Live It: Woody Allen in the 1990sBecause it's Real Difficult in Life: Husbands and WivesRear Condo: Manhattan Murder MysteryThe Voodoo That You Do So Well: Mighty AphroditeAnd What a Perfect Plot: Everyone Says I Love You and Zelig"How We Choose to Distort It": Deconstructing HarryFrom the Neck Up: Another Woman and CelebrityAllen and His Audience: Sweet and LowdownConfrontation and Escape: Allen's Twenty-First-Century Meditations on Tragedy and ComedyThe Magic of Luck: Scoop, Magic in the Moonlight, and Match PointThe Heart Wants What It Wants (2): Vicky Cristina Barcelona and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger"People Reinvent Themselves, Don't They?": Midnight in Paris and Blue JasmineEpilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 59 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
• Schlagworte: Aesthetic • aesthetics in film • ART • Audience • auteur • auteur filmmaker • Biography • Blue Jasmine • Bullets Over Broadway • Celebrity • cinematic narrative • Culture • Dialectic • dialectical montage • Director • Europe • Existential • existential movies • Fabrication • famous directors • film aesthetics • film audience • Film Biography • film career • film criticism • Human Condition • Image • Match Point • Mia Farrow • Midnight in Paris • Mighty Aphrodite • Play It Again Sam • prolific • prolific artists • Reality • Sandy Bates • set location • stardust memories • Sweet and Lowdown • working filmmaker
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-6770-1 / 0813167701
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6770-1 / 9780813167701