(Ebook) A companion to Woody Allen by Allen, Woody;Bailey, Peter J.;Girgus, Sam B ISBN 9781444337235, 9781785394034, 1444337238, 1785394037

(Ebook) A companion to Woody Allen by Allen, Woody;Bailey, Peter J.;Girgus, Sam B ISBN 9781444337235, 9781785394034, 1444337238, 1785394037

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Peter J. Bailey -- Part I. Biography/autobiography/auteurism: 1. The stand-up auteur / Cecilia Sayad; 2. Which Woody Allen? / Colleen Glenn; 3. Woody Allen and France / Gilles Menegaldo; 4. "Raging in the dark": late style in Woody Allen's films / Christopher J. Knight; 5. A difficult redemption: facing the other in Woody Allen's exilic period / John Douglas Macready; 6. Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody / Robert M. Polhemus -- Part II. Movies about the movies: 7. Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen / Stephen Papson; 8. Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity / Gregg Bachman; 9. Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films / Claire Sisco King; 10. Jazz heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood ending / Christopher Ames -- 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 / Cynthia Lucia; 12. "It's complicated, really": women in the films of Woody Allen / Joanna E. Rapf; 13. Woody Allen's grand scheme: the whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona / Renée R. Curry; 14. Love and citation in Midnight in Paris: remembering modernism, remembering Woody / Katherine Fusco.