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Edited by the authors of two of the most important books on Allen to date, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of twenty-six original essays on Allen's films. Addressing mainly the movies produced after Husbands and Wives (1992) and the tabloid scandals, contributions illuminate the films of Allen from a number of divergent critical perspectives, while seeking to expand the contexts in which his work is understood.

The essays are divided into five categories which cover Biography/Autobiography/Auteurism; Movies about the Movies; Allen and His Sisters: Cultural Critiques; Influences/Intertextualities; and Philosophy/Religion. Within these categories, essays discuss the relationship between Allen the filmmaker and his screen persona, films Allen has made about filmmakers and filmmaking, the depiction of female subjectivity in his more recent films, his influences, and the comical aspect of Allen's films. Critical approaches range from the formalistic to the highly postmodern, and this lively, wide-ranging volume assesses his remarkable filmmaking career by exploring its evolution and development and acknowledging the conflicts and contradictions that suffuse it.

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Title A Companion to Woody Allen
Author Peter J. Bailey (Editor); Sam B. Girgus (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 600
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Date 2013
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781444337235 / 1444337238
Weight 2.65 lbs (1.20 kg)
Dimensions 9.8 x 7.2 x 1.1 in (24.89 x 18.29 x 2.79 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Allen, Woody - Criticism and interpretation
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012042384
Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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About the author

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.

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