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9780812694536

Woody Allen and Philosophy [You Mean My Whole Fallacy Is Wrong?]

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812694536

  • ISBN10:

    0812694538

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-08-09
  • Publisher: Open Court

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Summary

According to philosophy professors Conard (Marymount Manhattan College) andkoble (Bridgewater State College), who co-edited The Simpsons and Philosophy,ou don't have to be a philosophy major to appreciate Woody Allen's take onife's big questions. They collect 15 views on such themes in his films asumor as philosophical commentary (e.g., Ann

Table of Contents

Foreword: Can We Not Talk about Sex All the Time? ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: You Know Nothing of My Work 1(4)
Act I MORALITY, INTERPRETATION, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
5(62)
God, Suicide, and the Meaning of Life in the Films of Woody Allen
7(17)
Mark T. Conard
Integrity in Woody Allen's Manhattan
24(9)
Aeon J. Skoble
Does Morality Have to Be Blind? A Kantian Analysis of Crimes and Misdemeanors
33(15)
James Lawler
Arguing Interpretations: The Pragmatic Optimism of Woody Allen
48(19)
Ian Jarvie
Act II WOODY'S CRAFT
67(100)
The Mousetrap: Reading Woody Allen
69(20)
James Wallace
Woody on Aesthetic Appreciation
89(12)
Jason Holt
Art and Voyeurism in the Films of Woody Allen
101(17)
Jerold Abrams
``You Don't Deserve Cole Porter'': Love and Music According to Woody Allen
118(14)
James South
Dead Sharks and Dynamite Ham: The Philosophical Use of Humor in Annie Hall
132(19)
Lou Ascione
Reconstructing Ingmar: The Aesthetic Purging of the Great Model
151(16)
Per Broman
Act III FIVE FILMS
167(92)
The Dangers of Hedonism: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
169(17)
Sander Lee
Inauthenticity and Personal Identity in Zelig
186(17)
David Detmer
It's All Darkness: Plato, The Ring of Gyges, and Crimes and Misdemeanors
203(15)
John Pappas
Self Knowledge in Another Woman
218(25)
Jill Gordon
Woody Allen's Film Noir Light: Crime, Love, and Self-Knowledge in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
243(16)
Mary P. Nichols
Entertainment for Intellectuals: A Woody Allen Filmography 259(2)
All These Great Minds . . . 261(4)
Index 265

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