Book description
Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody
Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the
director's films. Contributions offer a number of divergent critical
perspectives while expanding the contexts in which his work is understood.
- A timely companion by the authors of two of the most important
books on Allen to date
- Illuminates the films of Woody Allen from a number of divergent
critical perspectives
- Explores the contexts in which his work should be understood
- Assesses Allen's remarkable filmmaking career from its early
beginnings and investigates the conflicts and contradictions that
suffuse it
- Discusses Allen's recognition as a global cinematic figure
Peter Bailey is Frank P. Piskor Professor of English at St.
Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he has taught American
Literature, creative writing and film studies for 32 years. In
addition to The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (2001), he is
the author of Reading Stanley Elkin (1986) and Rabbit
(Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike's Fiction
(2006). He has also published on Frank Conroy, Robert Coover, Joan
Didion, Frederick Exley, John Irving, and Ronald Sukenick, and he is
secretary of the national John Updike Society.
Sam B. Girgus is Professor of English at Vanderbilt
University. He is a prolific author whose publications include The
Films of Woody Allen (2nd edition, 2002) and Levinas and the
Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine (2010). He
also has edited several works, including The American Self: Myth,
Ideology, and Popular Culture (1981). He is a recipient of a
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship and other scholarly and teaching
awards, and has lectured and taught extensively in universities
throughout America and the world.
