Films of Woody Allen (eBook)

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).

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