Films of Woody Allen

From What's Up, Tiger Lily? to Match Point, Woody Allen's work has generated substantial interest among scholars and professionals who have written extensively about the director. In The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays, Charles L. P. Silet brings together two-dozen scholarly articles that address the core of Allen's work from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives.

Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Chronology
Part 4 Part 1: General Essays
Chapter 5 1. Woody Allen's Lovable Anxious Schlemiels
Chapter 6 2. Woody Allen's New York
Chapter 7 3. The Narrator and the Narrative: The Evolution of Woody Allen's Film Comedies
Chapter 8 4. Woody Allen's Theological Imagination
Chapter 9 5. Woody Allen's Comic Irony
Chapter 10 6. Self-Deprecation and the Jewish Humor of Woody Allen
Chapter 11 7. Beyond Parody: Woody Allen in the 1980s
Part 12 Part 2: Individual Films
Chapter 13 8. Woody Allen and Fantasy: Play It Again, Sam
Chapter 14 9. Love and Death and Food: Woody Allen's Comic Use of Gastronomy
Chapter 15 10. Powerful Man Gets Pretty Woman: Style Switching in Annie Hall
Chapter 16 11. Annie Hall and the Issue of Modernism
Chapter 17 12. Autumn Interiors, or the Ladies Eve: Woody Allen's Bergman Complex
Chapter 18 13. Woody Allen's Manhattan and the Ethicity of Narrative
Chapter 19 14. Ciao, Woody: Stardust Memories
Chapter 20 15. Painful Laughter: The Collapse of Humor in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories
Chapter 21 16. Mysterious Illnesses of Human Commodities in Woody Allen and Franz Kafka: Zelig
Chapter 22 17. Zelig and Contemporary Theory: Meditation on the Chameleon Text
Chapter 23 18. Woody's Mild Irish Rose: Broadway Danny Rose
Chapter 24 19. Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and the Tradition of Metafiction
Chapter 25 20. Woody Allen's Interiors: The Dark Side of Hannah and Her Sisters
Chapter 26 21. The Religion of Radio Days
Chapter 27 22. Hlenka Regained: Irony and Ambiguity in the Narrator of Woody Allen's Another Woman
Chapter 28 23. Justice and the Withdrawal of God in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors
Chapter 29 24. Between Time and Eternity: Theological Notes on Shadows and Fog
Part 30 Filmography
Part 31 Index
Part 32 About the Contributors
Part 33 About the Editor