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

Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to WoodyAllen presents a collection of 26 original essays on thedirector's films. Contributions offer a number of divergentcritical perspectives while expanding the contexts in which hiswork is understood.* A timely companion by the authors of two of the most importantbooks on Allen to date* Illuminates the films of Woody Allen from a number of divergentcritical perspectives* Explores the contexts in which his work should beunderstood* Assesses Allen's remarkable filmmaking career from itsearly beginnings and investigates the conflicts and contradictionsthat suffuse it* Discusses Allen's recognition as a global cinematicfigure

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 WoodyAllen's Films 73Christopher J. Knight5 A Difficult Redemption: Facing the Other in WoodyAllen's Exilic Period 95John Douglas Macready6 Comic Faith and Its Discontents: Death and the Late Woody116Robert M. PolhemusPart II Movies about the Movies 1457 Critical Theory and the Cinematic World of Woody Allen147Stephen Papson8 Crimes and Misdemeanors: Reflections on Refl exivity 170Gregg Bachman9 Play it Again, Woody: Self-Reflexive Critique in ContemporaryWoody Allen Films 188Claire Sisco King10 Jazz Heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood Ending 207Christopher AmesPart III Allen and His Sisters: Cultural Critiques22711 "Here . . . It's Not Their Cup of Tea":Woody Allen's Melodramatic Tendencies in InteriorsSeptember, Another Woman, and Alice 229Cynthia Lucia12 "It's Complicated, Really": Women in theFilms of Woody Allen 257Joanna E. Rapf13 Woody Allen's Grand Scheme: The Whitening of ManhattanLondon, and Barcelona 277Renée R. Curry14 Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: RememberingModernism, Remembering Woody 294Katherine FuscoPart IV Influences/Intertextualities 31915 Taking the Tortoise for a Walk: Woody Allen as Flâneur321William Brigham16 Lurking in Shadows: Kleinman's Trial and Defense339Iris Bruce17 Woody Allen and the Literary Canon 359William Hutchings18 "Who's He When He's at Home?": ACensus of Woody Allen's Literary, Philosophical, and ArtisticAllusions 381J. Andrew Gothard19 The Schlemiel in Woody Allen's Later Films 403Menachem Feuer20 Barcelona: City of Refuge 424Brian Bergen-AurandPart V Philosophy/Religion 44121 Woody Allen and the (False) Dichotomy of Science and Religion443Mark T. Conard22 The Philosopher as Filmmaker 460David Detmer23 Disappearing Act: The Trick Philosophy of Woody Allen481Patrick Murray and Jeanne A. Schuler24 Love, Meaning, and God in the Later Films of Woody Allen504Sander Lee25 Hollywood Rabbi: The Never-Ending Questions of Woody Allen520Monica Osborne26 Allen's Random Universe in His European Cycle:Morality, Marriage, Magic 539Richard A. Blake27 Afterword: The Abyss: Woody Allen on Love, Death, and God559Sam B. GirgusIndex 573