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

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction•Vincent Brook and Marat Grinberg ix Overview The Gospel According to Woody: From Annie Hall through To Rome with Love• Vincent Brook 3 Comparative Analysis The Birth of a Hebrew Tragedy: Cassandra’s Dream as a Morality Play in the Context of Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point• Marat Grinberg 37 A Jew Leaves New York: Woody Allen’s Gloomy British Angst• Curtis Maloley 58 Schlemiel Theory Woody Allen’s Schlemiel: From Humble Beginnings to an Abrupt End• Menachem Feuer 79 “Woody the Gentile”: Christian-Jewish Interplay in Allen’s Films from What’s New Pussycat? to Midnight in Paris• Joshua Louis Moss 100 “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t”: Woody Allen’s Vanishing Act in Scoop• Peter J. Bailey 122 Women’s Issues Woody’s Women: Jewish Domesticity and the Unredeemed Ghost of Hanukkah to Come• Giovanna P. Del Negro 143 Reconstructing Woody: Representations of Religious Jewish Women in Deconstructing Harry• Shaina Hammerman 171 “Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goodbye)”: Disposable Women in the Films of Woody Allen• Elliot Shapiro 190 Cultural Studies Digesting Woody: Food and Foodways in the Movies of Woody Allen• Nathan Abrams 215 Schlemiel on Broadway: Woody Allen’s Jewish Identity in His Stage Plays from Don’t Drink the Water to Honeymoon Motel• James Fisher 235 Woody Allen: Filmography 259 Woody Allen: Play List 261 List of Contributors 263 Index 267 ...