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Woody on rye : Jewishness in the films and plays of Woody Allen / edited by Vincent Brook and Marat Grinberg. - Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014] - xxxiii, 275 p. ; 23 cm. - Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life .

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

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.

ISBN: 9781611684803 1611684803

Subjects--Personal Names:
Allen, Woody, 1935- --Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews in popular culture--United States.
Popular culture--Religious aspects--Judaism.

LC Class. No.: PN1998.3.A45 / W76 2014