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Woody Allen and Philosophy : [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?].
Title:
Woody Allen and Philosophy : [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?].
Author:
Conard, Mark T.
ISBN:
9780812697469
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Series:
Popular Culture and Philosophy
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword: Can We Not Talk about Sex All the Time? -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction:You Know Nothing of My Work -- Act I: Morality, Interpretation, and the Meaning of Life -- 1. God, Suicide, and the Meaning of Life in the Films of Woody Allen -MARK T. CONARD -- 2. Integrity in Woody Allen's Manhattan -AEON J. SKOBLE -- 3. Does Morality Have to Be Blind? A Kantian Analysis of Crimes and Misdemeanors -JAMES LAWLER -- 4. Arguing Interpretation: The Pragmatic Optimism of Woody Allen -IAN JARVIE -- Act II: Woody's Craft -- 5. The Mousetrap: Reading Woody Allen -JAMES M. WALLACE -- 6. Woody on Aesthetic Appreciation -JASON HOLT -- 7. Art and Voyeurism in the Films of Woody Allen -JEROLD ABRAMS -- 8. "You Don't Deserve Cole Porter": Love and Music According to Woody Allen -JAMES B. SOUTH -- 9. Dead Sharks and Dynamite Ham: The Philosophical Use of Humor in Annie Hall -LOU ASCIONE -- 10. Reconstructing Ingmar:The Aesthetic Purging of the Great Model -PER F. BROMAN -- Act III: Five Films -- 11. The Dangers of Hedonism: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy -SANDER LEE -- 12. Inauthenticity and Personal Identity in Zelig -DAVID DETMER -- 13. It's All Darkness: Plato,The Ring of Gyges, and Crimes and Misdemeanors -JOHN G. PAPPAS -- 14. Self-Knowledge in Another Woman -JILL GORDON -- 15. Woody Allen's Film Noir Light: Crime, Love, and Self-Knowledge in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion -MARY P. NICHOLS -- Entertainment for Intellectuals: A Woody Allen Filmography -- All These Great Minds . . . -- Index.
Abstract:
Fifteen philosophers representuing different schools of thought answer the question what is Woody Allen trying to say in his films? And why should anyone care? Focusing on different works and varied aspects of Allen's multifaceted output, these essays explore the philosophical undertones of Anne Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy and reminds us that just because the universe is meaningless and life is pointless is no reason to commit suicide.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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