Allen Woody - A companion to Woody Allen

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Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

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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, WoodyCriticism and interpretation. I. Bailey, Peter J., 1946 editor of compilation. II. Girgus, Sam B., 1941 editor of compilation.

PN1998.3.A45C66 2013

791.43092dc23

2012042384

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Cover image: Woody Allen, c. 1985. Photo Terry ONeill / Getty Images

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Notes on Contributors

Christopher Ames is Vice President of Academic Affairs at Shepherd University. 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 Communication Department at the University of Tampa. In addition to Woody Allen, Dr. Bachman, the co-editor of the volume American Silent Film: Discovering Marginalized 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, Almodvar, 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 Kafka in his time and contemporary popular culture, German-Jewish Studies, and Israel Studies: the literature of Israel and Palestine. She is the author of Kafka 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 Philosophy; he is editor of The Philosophy of Film Noir, The Philosophy of Neo-Noir, The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers, and The Philosophy of Spike Lee.

Rene 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), Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth (2003), and