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Index

Note: Extended discussions of films or themes are noted in bold
.

Aaron, Caroline

Abraham, F. Murray

“acceptance, forgiveness, and love,”

Adair, Gilbert

Adler, Jerry

Aiello, Danny

Airplane

“Alabammy Bound,”

Alda, Alan

Alden, Harold

Allen, Woody: ambivalent attitude toward art,;argument that critics exaggerate the value and complexity of art; association of plot resolution with illusion; assumption that artworks replicate human corruption,; belief that happy endings happen only to fictional characters,; belief that life’s bleakness demands escapist consolations of art,; blurring of reality with movie reality,; characters’ capacity for confounding art and life,; conflict between creating comic vs. serious art; conflicting attitudes on art’s derivation from artists’ lives,; continuity with tradition of Jewish/American humor; conviction of the indistinguishability of art and narcissism,; criticized for anti-Semitic depictions of Jews,; demoralization of 1990s protagonists; doubts about the family as solution to existential dilemma,; exploitation of “Woody Allen” protagonist; films reflect a convergence of American theatrical realism with classic Hollywood film style; identification with non-”Woody Allen” protagonists; intermingling of comic and serious modes in films; love of movies developed in childhood; magic as metaphor for artworks; 1990s preference for creating “magic lantern en’tertainments” over serious films,; objection to the category of “loser,”; opposition to Modernist ideal of art’s redeeming capacities,; opposition to Modernist ideal of art’s redeeming capacities ironized in
Deconstructing Harry,
; protagonists’ anxiety about integrity of self; repudiation of genetic determinism and Greek notions of fatality; skepticism toward existentialist affirmation; skepticism toward the distortions of artistic representation; tendency to invoke and imitate films of European masters; thematic disparity between surface order and internal corruption,; thematic tension between WASP decorum and Jewish humor,; unconcern for audience; unresolved conflict between artistic idealism and pragmatic realism; view that reality of death nullifies all other human perceptions, —films:
Alice
,;
Annie Hall,
;
Another Woman,
;
Bananas,
;
Broadway Danny Rose,
;
Bullets Over Broadway,
;
Celebrity
;
Crimes and Misdemeanors,
;
Deconstructing Harry
;
Everyone Says I Love You,
;
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex,
;
Hannah and Her Sisters,
;
Husbands and Wives,
;
Interiors,
;
Love and Death,
;
Manhattan,
;
Manhattan Murder Mystery
;
Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy A,
;
Mighty Aphrodite,
; “Oedipus Wrecks,”;
Play It Again, Sam,
;
Purple Rose of Cairo,
;
Radio Days,
;
September,
;
Shadows and Fog
;
Sleeper,
;
Stardust Memories,
;
Sweet andLowdown,
;
Take the Money and Run,
;
Zelig

—prose:
Complete Prose of Woody Allen,, The,
; “Death (A Play),”; “God: A Play,”; “Kugplmass Episode, The,”; “My Apology,”; “My Secret Life with Bogart,”; “Random Reflections of a Second Rate Mind,”; “Remembering Needleman,”; “Through a Life Darkly” (review of Bergmans
The Magic Lantern
)

—scripts:
Bullets Over Broadway
(Allen and Douglas McGrath);
Radio Days

Alley, Kirstie

Allison, Terry L.

Always Leave Them Laughing

Amarcord
(Fellini)

Ames, Christopher

Anderson, Maxwell

Anderson, Sherwood

Ansen, David

Anspach, Susan

Anthony, Lysette

antimimetic emblems

Anzell, Hy

“Archaic Torso of Apollo” (Rilke)

Armstrong, Louis

Astaire, Fred

Autumn Sonata
(Bergman)

Balaban, Bob

Baldwin, Alec

Barrault, Marie-Christine

Barrymore, Drew

Barth, John

Barthelme,Donald

Baumbach, Jonathan

Baxter, John

Beattie, Ann

Bellow, Saul

Benjamin, Richard

Benny, Jack

Berger, Anna

Bergman, Ingmar

Bergmann, Martin

Berkow, Ira

Berle, Milton

Bernstein, Mashey

Betdeheim, Bruno

Bicycle Thief, The
(De Sica)

Big Sleep, The

Bjorkman, Stig

Blake, Richard A.

Bloom, Claire

Bogart, Humphrey,
passim

Bonham Carter, Helena

Borowitz, Eugene

Bourne, Mel

Branagh, Kenneth

Brecht, Berthold

Brickman, Marshall

Brode, Douglas (
The Films of Woody Allen
)

Brooks, Albert

Brooks, Mel

Brown, Georgia

Bunuel, Luis

Burr, Raymond, 206

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Byrne, Anne

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The
(Murnau)

Caine, Michael

Canby, Vincent

Carmichael, Hoagy

Carnegie Deli comedians

Carroll, Tim (
Woody and His Women
)

Carver, Raymond

Casablanca
(Michael Curtiz),
passim

Cassavettes, John

Cavett, Dick

Chapin, Kay

Chaplin, Charlie

Charles, Nick and Nora

“Cheek to Cheek,”

Chekhov, Anton

cinema verite

Citizen Kane
(Welles)

City Lights
(Chaplin)

Civilization and Its Discontents
(Freud)

Cohen, Lynn

Cohen, Sarah Blacher

Combs, Richard

Conroy, Frances

Coover, Robert

Coppola, Francis Ford

Counterlife, The
(Roth)

Cowie, Peter