Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen

NassimWinnie Balestrini, Karl Franzens University, Austria Giacomo Boitani, National University of Ireland, Galway María Elena de las Carreras-Kuntz, California State University, Northridge, USA Britta Feyerabend, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany Michael Fuchs, University of Siegen, Germany Martin Hall, York St. John University, UK Allan Havis, Playwright, USA Naama Harel Emory University, USA Zachary Ingle, University of Kansas, USA Wieland Schwanebeck, TU Dresden, Germany Klara Stephanie Szlezák, University Passau, Germany D. E. Wynter, California State University Northridge, USA

Notes on Contributors Preface; David Desser Introduction; Klara Stephanie Szlezak and D. E. Wynter PART I: INTERMEDIALITY AND FORM 1. Zelig: A Simulated Life; Britta Feyerabend 2. Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine: A Seductively Scented Flower Performing in a Theatrical Bubble; Nassim Winnie Balestrini PART II: EUROPEAN ART-CINEMA AND THE AUTEUR 3. 'Thank God the French Exist': Exploring the Referentiality of the Formal Elements of Film in Deconstructing Harry; Martin R. Hall 4. Two and a Half: Nostalgia, Modern Parody, and Fellini in Stardust Memories, Radio Days, and To Rome with Love; Giacomo Boitani PART III: GREEK MYTHOLOGY REVISITED 5. Oedipus or the Wrecks of the WASP Disguise; Naama Harel 6. Woody Allen and the Absurdity of Human Existence: Origin, Legacy, and Human Agency in God and Mighty Aphrodite; Michael Fuchs PART IV: LITERARY MASTERS OF 19TH-CENTURY REALISM 7. 'A Full Meal, with a Vitamin Pill and Extra Wheatgerm': Woody Allen, Dostoevsky, and Existential Morality; Zachary T. Ingle 8. 'Darling, Have You Seen My Strindberg Book?' Dialogism as Social Discourse in Match Point; D. E. Wynter PART V: REFERENTIALITY AND TRANSCULTURAL IMMERSION 9. Guitar and Cultural Trespass in Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Allan Havis 10. 'Hi Mr. Hemingway': Time and Space, Travel, and Literary Heritage in Midnight in Paris; Klara Stephanie Szlezak PART VI: IDENTITY: CONCEPTUALIZATION AND PERFORMANCE 11. Woody and 'Woody': The Making of a Persona; Wieland Schwanebeck 12. Magical Tricks and Ingmar Bergman: Referentiality in Magic in the Moonlight; Maria Elena de las Carreras-Kuntz Index