The reluctant film art of Woody Allen

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Contents: Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 That Old Black Magic: Woody Allens Ambivalent Artistry = 3 2 Strictly the Movies: Play It Again Sam = 19 3 Getting Serious: The Antimimetic Emblems of Annie Hall = 33 4 Art and Idealization: I'll Fake Manhattan = 47 5 Strictly the Movies II: How Radio Days Generated Nights at the Movies = 59 6 Life Stand Still Here: Interiors Dialogue = 71 7 In the Stardust of a Song: Stardust Memories = 85 8 Woody's Mild Jewish Rose: Broadway Danny Rose = 101 9 The Fine Art of Living Well: Woody Allen in the 1990s = 113 10 If You Want a Hollywood Ending: Husbands and Wives = 131 11 Everyone Loves Her/His Illusions: The Purple Rose of Cairo and Shadows and Fog = 145 12 Poetic License, Bullshit: Bullets Over Broadway = 161 13 Let's Just Live It: Woody Allen in the 1990s = 173 14 Because It's Real Difficult in Life: Husbands and Wives = 183 15 Rear Condo: Manhattan Murder Mystery = 199 16 That Voodoo That You I)o So Well: Mighty Aphrodite = 211 17 And What a Perfect Plot: Everyone Says I Love You and Zelig = 223 18 How We Choose to Distort It: Deconstructing Harry = 241 19 From the Neck Up: Another Woman and Celebrity = 255 20 Allen and His Audience: Sweet and Lowdown = 267 Notes = 279 Bibliography = 311 Index = 317

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