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If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to Woody Allen / edited by Peter J. Bailey and Sam B. Girgus. pages cm. – (Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4443-3723-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Allen, Woody–Criticism and interpretation. I. Bailey, Peter J., 1946– editor of compilation. II. Girgus, Sam B., 1941– editor of compilation. PN1998.3.A45C66 2013 791.43092–dc23 2012042384 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: Woody Allen, c. 1985. Photo © Terry O’Neill / Getty Images Cover design by Nicki Averill Design and Illustration Set in 11/13 pt Dante by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited 1 2013 Contents Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1 Peter J. Bailey Part I Biography/Autobiography/Auteurism 13 1 The Stand-up Auteur 15 Cecilia Sayad 2 Which Woody Allen? 35 Colleen Glenn 3 Woody Allen and France 53 Gilles Menegaldo 4 “Raging in the Dark”: Late Style in Woody Allen’s Films 73 Christopher J. Knight 5 A Difficult Redemption: Facing the Other in Woody Allen’s Exilic Period 95 John Douglas Macready 6 Comic Faith and Its Discontents: Death and the Late Woody 116 Robert M. Polhemus Part II Movies about the Movies 145 7 Critical Theory and the Cinematic World of Woody Allen 147 Stephen Papson 8 Crimes and Misdemeanors: Reflections on Reflexivity 170 Gregg Bachman vi Contents 9 Play it Again, Woody: Self-Reflexive Critique in Contemporary Woody Allen Films 188 Claire Sisco King 10 Jazz Heaven: Woody Allen and the Hollywood Ending 207 Christopher Ames Part III Allen and His Sisters: Cultural Critiques 227 11 “Here . It’s Not Their Cup of Tea”: Woody Allen’s Melodramatic Tendencies in Interiors, September, Another Woman, and Alice 229 Cynthia Lucia 12 “It’s Complicated, Really”: Women in the Films of Woody Allen 257 Joanna E. Rapf 13 Woody Allen’s Grand Scheme: The Whitening of Manhattan, London, and Barcelona 277 Renée R. Curry 14 Love and Citation in Midnight in Paris: Remembering Modernism, Remembering Woody 294 Katherine Fusco Part IV Influences/Intertextualities 319 15 Taking the Tortoise for a Walk: Woody Allen as Flâneur 321 William Brigham 16 Lurking in Shadows: Kleinman’s Trial and Defense 339 Iris Bruce 17 Woody Allen and the Literary Canon 359 William Hutchings 18 “Who’s He When He’s at Home?”: A Census of Woody Allen’s Literary, Philosophical, and Artistic Allusions 381 J. Andrew Gothard 19 The Schlemiel in Woody Allen’s Later Films 403 Menachem Feuer 20 Barcelona: City of Refuge 424 Brian Bergen-Aurand Part V Philosophy/Religion 441 21 Woody Allen and the (False) Dichotomy of Science and Religion 443 Mark T. Conard Contents vii 22 The Philosopher as Filmmaker 460 David Detmer 23 Disappearing Act: The Trick Philosophy of Woody Allen 481 Patrick Murray and Jeanne A. Schuler 24 Love, Meaning, and God in the Later Films of Woody Allen 504 Sander Lee 25 Hollywood Rabbi: The Never-Ending Questions of Woody Allen 520 Monica Osborne 26 Allen’s Random Universe in His European Cycle: Morality, Marriage, Magic 539 Richard A. Blake 27 Afterword: The Abyss: Woody Allen on Love, Death, and God 559 Sam B. Girgus Index 573 Notes on Contributors Christopher Ames is Vice President of Academic Affairs at Shepherd Univer- sity. He is the author of The Life of the Party: Festive Vision in Modern Fiction (1991, reprinted 2010) and Movies about the Movies: Hollywood Reflected (1997). He has published articles on literary modernism, the Hollywood novel, and film. Gregg Bachman teaches cinema studies and screenwriting in the Communica- tion Department at the University of Tampa. In addition to Woody Allen, Dr. Bachman, the co-editor of the volume American Silent Film: Discovering Margin­ alized Voices, has written on such diverse topics as westerns and silent movie audiences. Brian Bergen-Aurand teaches cinema at Nanyang Technological University, where he specializes in film, ethics, and embodiment. His recent work has appeared in Information Ethics, Intercultural Studies, and New Review of Film and Television Studies, including articles on Antonioni, Almodóvar, and Fassbinder. Currently, he is writing on Chaplin and film ethics. Richard A. Blake, S.J., is Co-director of the film studies program at Boston College. His books include Woody Allen Profane and Sacred and Street Smart: the New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese and Lee. He was the regular film reviewer for America magazine for 35 years. William Brigham, M.A., M.S.W., has taught film studies at various institutions of higher education in California and is the author of published essays on family in the films of Woody Allen, depictions of homelessness in American films, and the rage of African American filmmakers. Iris Bruce is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at McMaster University, Canada. Her research interests are Kaf ka in his time and contemporary popular culture, German-Jewish Studies, and Israel Studies: the Notes on Contributors ix literature of Israel and Palestine. She is the author of Kaf ka and Cultural Zionism. Dates in Palestine (2007). Mark T. Conard is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. He is the co-editor of The Simpsons and Philosophy, and Woody Allen and Phi­ losophy; he is editor of The Philosophy of Film Noir, The Philosophy of Neo­Noir, The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers, and The Philosophy of Spike Lee. Renée R. Curry, Ph.D., English, is Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University Monterey Bay. She is the editor of Perspectives on Woody Allen; editor of States of Rage: Emotional Eruption, Violence, and Social Change and White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath and Whiteness. David Detmer is a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Calumet. He is the author of Phenomenology Explained (forthcoming), Sartre Explained (2008), Chal­ lenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth (2003), and Freedom as a Value (1988). Menachem Feuer currently teaches in the Jewish Studies Department at the Uni- versity of Waterloo.