Woody on rye : Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen / edited by Vincent Brook and Marat Grinberg.

ISBN:

9781611684810

9781306054713

Title:

Woody on rye : Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen / edited by Vincent Brook and Marat Grinberg.

Author:

Brook, Vincent, 1946- editor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Series:

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life

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eBooks on EBSCOhost

Personal Subject:

Allen, Woody, 1935--Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

Added Author:

Brook, Vincent, 1946-

Grinberg, Marat, 1977-

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Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

Waltham, Massachusetts :

Brandeis University Press,

[2014]

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Although Woody Allen's films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contributors--whose work is richly contextualized in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, theater, and comedy--examine the schlemiel, Allen and women, the Jewish take on the "morality of murder," Allen's take on Hebrew scripture and Greek tragedy, his stage work, his cinematic treatment of food and dining, and what happens to "Jew York" when Woody takes his films out of New York City. Considered together, these essays delineate the intellectual, artistic, and moral development of one of cinema's most durable and controversial directors.

Author Notes

PETER BROWN, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, is a leading authority on the society of late antiquity and early Christianity. He is author of Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (1967, 2000), The Rise of Western Christendom (1996), Authority and the Sacred (1995), and The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (1988).

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This book's title is cute, cute in a way that the rest of the book smoothly, ferociously avoids (except for one essay, Nathan Abrams's "Digesting Woody: Food and Foodways in the Movies of Woody Allen"). These scholarly essays (including the editors' 20-page bibliographical introduction) astonish the reader with their unyielding (scholarly) seriousness. Two essays define Allen's work as Jewish ("Hebrew") tragedy; four explore "the schlemiel theory" with rare originality, scope, and usefulness; three address the unsettling way Allen depicts women; and one, with firecracker wit, analyzes food--"gastronomy." It all adds up to the best book about movies in years. Some of the essays are stylistically, referentially difficult. That is part of their value--nothing glib, nothing facile, and not much attention to gossip or scandal. This book will thrill all readers. It joins three other titles that deserve attention: Eric Lax's Woody Allen: A Biography (1991), Woody Allen: A Casebook, ed. by Kimball King (2001), and Sander Lee's Woody Allen's Angst (CH, Apr'97, 34-4371; abridged as Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed: Anguish, God, and Existentialism, 2002). --Paul H. Stacy, University of Hartford

IntroductionVincent Brook and Marat Grinberg

Overview

The Gospel According to Woody: From Annie Hall through To Rome with LoveVincent Brook

Comparative Analysis

The Birth of a Hebrew Tragedy: Cassandra's Dream as a Morality Play in the Context of Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match PointMarat Grinberg

A Jew Leaves New York: Woody Allen's Gloomy British AngstCurtis Maloley

Schlemiel Theory

Woody Allen's Schlemiel: From Humble Beginnings to Abrupt EndMenachem Feuer

"Woody the Gentile": Christian-Jewish Interplay in Allen's Films from What's New Pussycat? to Midnight in ParisJoshua Louis Moss

"Now You See Him, Now You Don't": Woody Allen's Vanishing Act in ScoopPeter J. Bailey

Women's Issues

Woody's Women: Jewish Domesticity and the Unredeemed Ghost of Hanukkah to ComeGiovanna P. Del Negro

Reconstructing Woody: Representations of Religious Jewish Women in Deconstructing HarryShaina Hammerman

"Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goodbye)": Disposable Women in the Films of Woody AllenElliot Shapiro

Cultural Studies

Digesting Woody: Food and Foodways in the Movies of Woody AllenNathan Abrams

Schlemiel on Broadway: Woody Allen's Jewish Identity in His Stage Plays from Don't Drink the Water to Honeymoon MotelJames Fisher

Woody Allen: Filmography

Woody Allen: Play List

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