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This page intentionally left blank The Films of Woody Allen Second Edition The Films of Woody Allen is the first full-length work to examine the di- rector as a serious filmmaker and artist. Sam Girgus argues that Allen has consistently been on the cutting edge of contemporary critical and cultural consciousness,challengingournotionsofauthorship,narrative,perspective, character, theme, ideology, gender, and sexuality. This revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that examine Allen’s work since 1992. GirgusarguesthatthescandalsurroundingAllen’spersonallifeintheearly 1990shasalteredhisimageinwaysthatrepositionmoralconsciousnessin his work. The union between Allen’s public and private selves that created a special aura about him remains intact despite the director’s concerted ef- fort to separate his private life from his screen image. Allen now assumes a postmodern moral relativism and sensual realism that differ profoundly fromthemoralsensibilityofhisearlierwork. Sam B. Girgus is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. A recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship and other scholarly teaching awards, he is the author of Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era ofFord,Capra,andKazan;DesireandthePoliticalUnconscious;TheNew Covenant:JewishWritersandtheAmericanIdea;andmostrecently,America onFilm:Modernism,Documentary,andaChangingAmerica. i CAMBRIDGE FILM CLASSICS GeneralEditor:RayCarney,BostonUniversity The Cambridge Film Classics series provides a forum for revisionist studies of the classic works of the cinematic canon from the perspective of the new Auterism, whichrecognizesthatfilmsemergefromacomplexinteractionofbureaucratic,tech- nological, intellectual, cultural, and personal forces. The series consists of concise, cutting-edgereassessmentsofthecanonicalworksoffilmstudy,writtenbyinnova- tivescholarsandcritics.Eachvolumeprovidesageneralintroductiontothelifeand workofaparticulardirector,followedbycriticalessaysofseveralofthedirector’s mostimportantfilms. iii The Films of Woody Allen Second Edition SAM B. GIRGUS VanderbiltUniversity v Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521810913 © Sam B. Girgus 2002 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2002 - isbn-13 978-0-511-07279-6 eBook (EBL) - isbn-10 0-511-07279-1 eBook (EBL) - isbn-13 978-0-521-81091-3 hardback - isbn-10 0-521-81091-4 hardback isbn--13 978-0-521-00929-4 paperback - isbn-10 0-521-00929-4 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. To Scottie
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