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Informationen zum Autor Peter Bailey is Frank P. Piskor Professor of English at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he has taught American Literature, creative writing and film studies for 32 years. In addition to The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (2001), he is the author of Reading Stanley Elkin (1986) and Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike's Fiction (2006). He has also published on Frank Conroy, Robert Coover, Joan Didion, Frederick Exley, John Irving, and Ronald Sukenick, and he is secretary of the national John Updike Society.Sam B. Girgus is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is a prolific author whose publications include The Films of Woody Allen (2nd edition, 2002) and Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine (2010). He also has edited several works, including The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture (1981). He is a recipient of a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship and other scholarly and teaching awards, and has lectured and taught extensively in universities throughout America and the world. Klappentext Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director's films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which his work is understood.* A timely companion by the authors of two of the most important books on Allen to date* Illuminates the films of Woody Allen from a number of divergent critical perspectives* Explores the contexts in which his work should be understood* Assesses Allen's remarkable filmmaking career from its early beginnings and investigates the conflicts and contradictions that suffuse it* Discusses Allen's recognition as a global cinematic figure Zusammenfassung Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director s films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which his work is understood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction 1Peter J. BaileyPart I Biography/Autobiography/Auteurism 131 The Stand-up Auteur 15Cecilia Sayad2 Which Woody Allen? 35Colleen Glenn3 Woody Allen and France 53Gilles Menegaldo4 "Raging in the Dark": Late Style in Woody Allen's Films 73Christopher J. Knight5 A Difficult Redemption: Facing the Other in Woody Allen's Exilic Period 95John Douglas Macready6 Comic Faith and Its Discontents: Death and the Late Woody 116Robert M. PolhemusPart II Movies about the Movies 1457 Critical Theory and the Cinematic World of Woody Allen 147Stephen Papson8 Crimes and Misdemeanors: Reflections on Refl exivity 170Gregg Bachman9 Play it Again, Woody: Self-Reflexive Critique in Contemporary Woody Allen Films 188Claire Sisco King10 Jazz Heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood Ending 207Christopher AmesPart III Allen and His Sisters: Cultural Critiques 22711 "Here . . . It's Not Their Cup of Tea": Woody Allen's Melodramatic Tendencies in Interiors, September, Another Woman, and Alice 229Cynthia Lucia12 "It's Complicated, Really": Women in the Films of Woody Allen 257Joanna E. Rapf13 Woody Allen's Grand Scheme: The Whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona 277Renée R. Curry14 Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: Remembering Modernism, Remembering Woody 294Katherine FuscoPart IV Influences/Intertextualities 31915 Taking the Tortoise for a Walk: Woody Allen as Flâneur 321William Brigham16 Lurking in Shadows: Kleinman's Trial and Defense 339Iris Bruce17 Woody Allen and the Literary Canon 359William Hutchings18 "Who's He When He's at Home?": A Census of Woody Allen's Literary, Philosophical, and Artistic Allusions 381J. Andrew Gothard19 The Schlemiel in Woody Allen's Later Films 403Menachem Feuer20 Bar...
