The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen - Hardcover

Bailey, Peter J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813121671 ISBN 13: 9780813121673

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000

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Book by Bailey Peter J

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For 30 years, no American filmmaker has been as prolific - or as paradoxical - as Wood Allen. From "Play it Again Sam" (1972), to "Sweet and Lowdown" (1999), Allen has produced an average of one film a year. Yet with each new film, he reveals a progressively more sceptical attitude towards art. Merging criticism with biography, this work uses Allen's ambivalent views of the artistic enterprise as the key to understanding his entire career. The author demonstrates how Allen's films constitute a debate he is conducting with himself about the capacities of art to improve the quality of life and about the resulting price exacted upon artists and those around them. An underlying tension between reality and image is identified, demonstrating how the resolution of this conflict in each movie is revisited, critiqued, and reconfigured in the next.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0813121671
• ISBN 13: 9780813121673
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288