Woody on rye : Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen / edited by Vincent Brook and Marat Grinberg.

Other author Brook, Vincent, 1946- editor.
Other author Grinberg, Marat, 1977- editor.
Format Book
PublicationWaltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014]
Copyright Date©2014
Descriptionxxxiii, 275 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Allen, Woody--Criticism and interpretation.
Jews in popular culture--United States.
Popular culture--Religious aspects. --Judaism.

SeriesBrandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life. ^A302188
Contents The gospel according to Woody : from Annie Hall through To Rome with love / Vincent Brook -- 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 -- A Jew leaves New York : Woody Allen's gloomy British angst / Curtis Maloley -- Woody Allen's schlemiel : from humble beginnings to an abrupt end / Menachem Feuer -- "Woody the gentile" : Christian-Jewish interplay in Allen's films from What's new pussycat? to Midnight in Paris / Joshua Louis Moss -- "Now you see him, now you don't" : Woody Allen's vanishing act in Scoop / Peter J. Bailey -- Woody's women : Jewish domesticity and the unredeemed ghost of Hanukkah to come / Giovanni P. Del Negro -- Reconstructing Woody : representations of religious Jewish women in Deconstruct Harry / Shaina Hammerman -- "Toot, toot, Tootsie! (Goodbye)" : disposable women in the films of Woody Allen / Elliot Shapiro -- Digesting Woody : food and foodways in the movies of Woody Allen / Nathan Abrams -- Schlemiel on Broadway : Woody Allen's Jewish identity in his stage plays from Don't drink the water to Honeymoon motel / James Fisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
LCCN 2013017426
ISBN9781611684797 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN161168479X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781611684803 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1611684803 (pbk. : alk. paper)