| Contents |
That old black magic: Woody Allen's ambivalent artistry -- Strictly the movies: Play it again, Sam -- Getting serious: the antimimetic emblems of Annie Hall -- Art and idealization: I'll fake Manhattan -- Strictly the movies ii: how Radio days generated nights at the movies -- Life stand still here: Interiors dialogue -- In the stardust of a song: Stardust memories -- Woody's mild Jewish Rose: Broadway Danny Rose -- The fine art of living well: Hannah and her sisters -- If you want a Hollywood ending: Crimes and misdemeanors -- Everyone loves her/his illusions: The purple rose of Cairo and Shadows and fog -- Poetic license, bullshit: Bullets over Broadway -- Let's just live it: Woody Allen in the 1990s -- Because it's real difficult in life: Husbands and wives -- Rear condo: Manhattan murder mystery -- That voodoo that you do so well: Mighty Aphrodite -- And what a perfect plot: Everyone says I love you and Zelig -- How we choose to distort it: Deconstructing Harry -- From the neck up: Another woman and Celebrity -- Allen and his audience: Sweet and lowdown -- Confrontation and escape: Allen's twenty-first-century meditations on comedy and tragedy -- The magic of luck: Scoop, Magic in the moonlight, and Match point -- The heart still wants what it wants: Vicky Cristina Barcelona and You will meet a tall dark stranger -- "People reinvent themselves, don't they?": Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine -- Epilogue. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2015047418 |
| ISBN | 9780813121673 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0813121671 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780813167190 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0813167191 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
