Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
 Zelig: A Simulated Life....Pages 13-30
Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine: A Seductively Scented Flower Performing in a Theatrical Bubble....Pages 31-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
“Thank God the French exist”: Exploring the Referentiality of the Formal Elements of Film in Deconstructing Harry ....Pages 51-67
Two and a Half: Nostalgia, Modern Parody, and Fellini in Stardust Memories, Radio Days, and To Rome with Love ....Pages 68-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Oedipus or the Wrecks of the WASP Disguise....Pages 87-99
Woody Allen and the Absurdity of Human Existence: Origin, Legacy, and Human Agency in God and Mighty Aphrodite ....Pages 100-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
“A full meal with a vitamin pill and extra wheatgerm”: Woody Allen, Dostoevsky, and Existential Morality....Pages 119-136
“Darling, have you seen my Strindberg book?”: Dialogism as Social Discourse in Match Point ....Pages 137-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Guitar and Cultural Trespass in Vicky Cristina Barcelona ....Pages 159-172
“Hi Mr. Hemingway”: Time and Space, Travel, and Literary Heritage in Midnight in Paris ....Pages 173-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Woody and “Woody”: The Making of a Persona....Pages 193-209
Magical Tricks and Ingmar Bergman: Referentiality in Magic in the Moonlight ....Pages 210-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-233