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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2016.
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Edición: | Second edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.