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

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014]
Series:Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.
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Table of Contents:
  • The gospel according to Woody : from Annie Hall through To Rome with love / Vincent Brook
  • The birth of a Hebrew tragedy : Cassandra's dream as a morality play in the context of Crimes and misdemeanors and Match point / Marat Grinberg
  • A Jew leaves New York : Woody Allen's gloomy British angst / Curtis Maloley
  • Woody Allen's schlemiel : from humble beginnings to an abrupt end / Menachem Feuer
  • "Woody the gentile" : Christian-Jewish interplay in Allen's films from What's new pussycat? to Midnight in Paris / Joshua Louis Moss
  • "Now you see him, now you don't" : Woody Allen's vanishing act in Scoop / Peter J. Bailey
  • Woody's women : Jewish domesticity and the unredeemed ghost of Hanukkah to come / Giovanni P. Del Negro
  • Reconstructing Woody : representations of religious Jewish women in Deconstruct Harry / Shaina Hammerman
  • "Toot, toot, Tootsie! (Goodbye)" : disposable women in the films of Woody Allen / Elliot Shapiro
  • Digesting Woody : food and foodways in the movies of Woody Allen / Nathan Abrams
  • Schlemiel on Broadway : Woody Allen's Jewish identity in his stage plays from Don't drink the water to Honeymoon motel / James Fisher.