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The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen /

For five decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific - or as paradoxical - as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) to Midnight in Paris (2011) and Blue Jasmine (2013), Allen has produced an average of one film a year; yet in many of these movies Allen reveals a progressively skeptical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bailey, Peter J., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • That old black magic: Woody Allen's ambivalent artistry
  • Strictly the movies: Play it again, Sam
  • Getting serious: the antimimetic emblems of Annie Hall
  • Art and idealization: I'll fake Manhattan
  • Strictly the movies ii: how Radio days generated nights at the movies
  • Life stand still here: Interiors dialogue
  • In the stardust of a song: Stardust memories
  • Woody's mild Jewish Rose: Broadway Danny Rose
  • The fine art of living well: Hannah and her sisters
  • If you want a Hollywood ending: Crimes and misdemeanors
  • Everyone loves her/his illusions: The purple rose of Cairo and Shadows and fog
  • Poetic license, bullshit: Bullets over Broadway
  • Let's just live it: Woody Allen in the 1990s
  • Because it's real difficult in life: Husbands and wives
  • Rear condo: Manhattan murder mystery
  • That voodoo that you do so well: Mighty Aphrodite
  • And what a perfect plot: Everyone says I love you and Zelig
  • How we choose to distort it: Deconstructing Harry
  • From the neck up: Another woman and Celebrity
  • Allen and his audience: Sweet and lowdown
  • Confrontation and escape: Allen's twenty-first-century meditations on comedy and tragedy
  • The magic of luck: Scoop, Magic in the moonlight, and Match point
  • The heart still wants what it wants: Vicky Cristina Barcelona and You will meet a tall dark stranger
  • "People reinvent themselves, don't they?": Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine
  • Epilogue.