Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen

Index

Index Adorno, Theodor, xxvi, 80, 82, 87, 96, 97 Alice (1990), 14, 71, 129, 131; and food, 227; magic, 71, 131, 132; schlemiel, 14 Allen, Woody: and children of, xxxiiin84, 12, 13, 26, 30; comedy/ serious film conflict, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 60; existentialism, xix, xviii, 39, 40, 216; family background, 9, 124, 125, 164, 246, 255, 256; French reputation, 18, 21, 24; name change, xiv; religious upbringing, 124, 125, 255, 256; social conscience, xxi, xxv, xxvi, 61, 65, 67–69, 74. See also Allen’s persona; art, cinema; Borscht Belt; death; Farrow, Mia; Farrow/Previn scandal; gentile women; Jewish mother; Jewish women; Jewishness; Judaism, religion; love relationships; New York City; Previn, Soon-Yi; schlemiel; individual films, plays, prose Allen’s persona, xix, xxiv, 3, 4, 13, 16, 17, 19, 122–38, 143, 144, 148, 179, 220, 230; and aging, xxvvii, 25, 26, 29, 166, 205, 251; in Allen’s plays, 235, 236, 243, 245–47, 250; Christian-Jewish dialectic , 100–118; European phase, xxiii, xxv, 60, 74; New York Jew, xii, xiv, xv, xxviii, 29, 59, 151, 182, 235, 236. See also schlemiel; individual films, plays, prose Annie Hall (1977), ix, xiv, xx, xxiv, 9, 55, 79, 106, 193, 205; and Allen’s persona, 3, 26; anti-Semitism, 148, 152; box office, 4; critical reaction, 4, 60; food, 153, 216, 217, 220, 222, 223, 228, 230; gentiles, 144, 152, 160, 164, 177; gentile women, 3, 26, 148, 149, 152, 156, 217; Holocaust, 162; Jewish humor, 148, 175; Jewish mother, 152–54; Judaism, religion, xv, xxvii, 171–77, 180–83, 186, 220; love relationships, 43, 79, 143, 198, 217; other Allen film references to, 27, 28, 30; schlemiel, 79, 81, 95, 98, 242; self-hatred, 174; Yiddish, 154, 172 Another Woman (1988), 31n10; and box office, 11, 60; critical reaction, 11, 60; serious films, 5, 11, 59, 60, 112, 249; “WASP women” trilogy, 11, 59 anti-Semitism: and Hollywood, xiv, 104, 210n2; paranoia about, 27, 103, 115, 184, 234n41; practice of, 7, 120n21, 157, 204, 217, 247. See also individual films Anything Else (2003), x, 24–28, 30, 31n24, 66, 123, 230; and anti-Semitism, 230; death, 140n24; food, 230; gentile women, 26, 66; Holocaust, 162; Jewish humor, 28; Judaism, religion, 26–28; schlemiel, 66 Arendt, Hannah, xxvi, 82, 84–86, 88–90, 92, 93, 96, 97 art, cinema, xv, xvi, 3, 4, 43, 54, 71, 167; and Farrow/Previn scandal, xxiii; Holocaust, xxvi, 79–98; morality, 20, 22, 23. See also individual films, plays Bananas (1971), xiv, 165, 193; and food, 151; Jewish mother, 150, 151; Jewish 268 Index women, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157; parody, 143; schlemiel, 81, 89, 101, 156, 157 Bellow, Saul, xii, xvii, xviii, 40, 44, 55n7 Bergman, Ingmar, 7, 32n40, 61, 112, 211, 245, 255; and Fellini, 3, 6, 8, 19, 26, 32–33n50 Borscht Belt (Catskills), xii, xiv, 32n40, 151, 154, 156, 203, 217. See also individual films, plays Broadway Danny Rose (1984): and art, cinema, xix, 4, 123, 127, 128; Borscht Belt, xix, 4, 5, 9, 123, 125, 126, 138, 205; comedy film, 5, 112; food, 216; Jewish humor, 126; Jewishness, 39, 64, 126, 134; Judaism, religion, 9, 124, 127, 128; love relationships, 126, 135, 136; magic, 127; schlemiel, 9; Yiddish, 9, 39, 124 Brooks, Mel, xxii, 216, 223, 243, 248, 250–52 Bullets Over Broadway (1994): and Allen surrogates, 114, 116; art, cinema, 23, 114, 202; blackface, 205; death, 200, 202, 206, 207; Farrow/Previn scandal, 22, 201, 202; food, 231; gangsters, 206; Judaism, religion, 205; show business, 200, 202, 204, 205, 211, 242; women, 191, 192, 195, 197, 207; Yiddish, 204 Casino Royale (Val Guest and Ken Hughes, 1967), 106, 107 “Cassandra’s Dream” (poem, Edouard Roditi), 53, 54 Cassandra’s Dream (2007): and art, cinema, 49; death, 57n37; Dostoevsky, xxv; European phase, xxv, 24, 37, 58, 73, 74, 116; existentialism, 69, 70; Farrow/Previn scandal, 20; Judaism, religion, 37, 47– 51; Greek drama, myth, xxiv, xxv, 38, 46, 47, 49, 51, 52, 54, 67–70; morality, xxiv, 20, 37, 38, 65, 70; social class, 59, 61, 65, 67, 69, 70, 74 Celebrity (1998), 21, 29, 114, 115, 214; and art, cinema 22; and Judaism, religion, 224; love relationships, 22 Central Park West (play, on Death Defying Acts bill, 1995), 241, 254 Chaplin, Charlie, xiii, 88, 89, 125, 243, 258n17 Charney, Dov, 171, 173–75, 183; and American Apparel billboard, 171–73, 176, 186 Christianity, xviii, 135, 218; and Christonormativity, 102, 105–6, 107, 108, 110, 111, 113, 115...