A companion to Woody Allen

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Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Peter J. Bailey -- Part I. Biography/autobiography/auteurism: 1. The stand-up auteur / Cecilia Sayad; 2. Which Woody Allen? / Colleen Glenn; 3. Woody Allen and France / Gilles Menegaldo; 4. "Raging in the dark": late style in Woody Allen's films / Christopher J. Knight; 5. A difficult redemption: facing the other in Woody Allen's exilic period / John Douglas Macready; 6. Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody / Robert M. Polhemus -- Part II. Movies about the movies: 7. Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen / Stephen Papson; 8. Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity / Gregg Bachman; 9. Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films / Claire Sisco King; 10. Jazz heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood ending / Christopher Ames -- Part III. Allen and his sisters: cultural critiques: 11. "Here -- it's not their cup of tea": Woody Allen's melodramatic tendencies in Interiors, September, Another woman, and Alice / Cynthia Lucia; 12. "It's complicated, really": women in the films of Woody Allen / Joanna E. Rapf; 13. Woody Allen's grand scheme: the whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona / Renée R. Curry; 14. Love and citation in Midnight in Paris: remembering modernism, remembering Woody / Katherine Fusco. Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Peter J. Bailey -- Part I. Biography/autobiography/auteurism: 1. The stand-up auteur / Cecilia Sayad 2. Which Woody Allen? / Colleen Glenn 3. Woody Allen and France / Gilles Menegaldo 4. "Raging in the dark": late style in Woody Allen's films / Christopher J. Knight 5. A difficult redemption: facing the other in Woody Allen's exilic period / John Douglas Macready 6. Comic faith and its discontents: death and the late Woody / Robert M. Polhemus -- Part II. Movies about the movies: 7. Critical theory and the cinematic world of Woody Allen / Stephen Papson 8. Crimes and misdemeanors: reflections on reflexivity / Gregg Bachman 9. Play it again, Woody: self-reflexive critique in contemporary Woody Allen films / Claire Sisco King 10. Jazz heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood ending / Christopher Ames -- Part III. Allen and his sisters: cultural critiques: 11. "Here -- it's not their cup of tea": Woody Allen's melodramatic tendencies in Interiors, September, Another woman, and Alice / Cynthia Lucia 12. "It's complicated, really": women in the films of Woody Allen / Joanna E. Rapf 13. Woody Allen's grand scheme: the whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona / Renée R. Curry 14. Love and citation in Midnight in Paris: remembering modernism, remembering Woody / Katherine Fusco. Part IV. Influences/intertextualities: 15. Taking the tortoise for a walk: Woody Allen as flaneur William Brigham 16. Lurking in shadows: Kleinman's trial and defense / Iris Bruce 17. Woody Allen and the literary canon / William Hutchings 18. "Who's he when he's at home?": a census of Woody Allen's literary, philosophical, and artistic allusions / J. Andrew Gothard 19. The schlemiel in Woody Allen's later films / Menachem Feuer 20. Barcelona: city of refuge / Brian Bergen-Aurand -- Part V. Philosophy/religion: 21. Woody Allen and the (false) dichotomy of science and religion / Mark T. Conard 22. The philosopher as filmmaker / David Detmer 23. Disappearing act: the trick philosophy of Woody Allen / Patrick Murray, Jeanne A. Schuler 24. Love, meaning, and God in the later films of Woody Allen / Sander Lee 25. Hollywood Rabbi: the never-ending questions of Woody Allen / Monica Osborne 26. Allen's random universe in his European Cycle: morality, marriage, magic / Richard A. Blake 27. Afterword: The abyss: Woody Allen on love, death, and God / Sam B. Girgus.