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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43092
EAN num: 9780786413195
ISBN number: 0786413190
Label: McFarland & Company
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 245
Printing Date: April 12, 2002
Publishing house: McFarland & Company
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This new textbook is an abridgment of the author’s earlier Woody Allen’s Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on His Serious Films (McFarland, 1997; “invaluable”—Choice.)
Five main topics are explored: the desire of many of his characters to ground their lives in traditional ethical values despite their realization that such values may no longer be certain; the opposition between pessimism and optimism throughout his films; gender issues relating to romantic love, sexual desire, and the ongoing changes in our cultural expectations of both men and women; the idea that contemporary American society is quickly descending into barbarism precisely because of societal failure to maintain a sense of individual moral responsibility; and a critique of psychoanalysis as a method for understanding human behavior.
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You've got to be alive, awake, and alert to get everything Mr. Lee has to offer you from this book. He doesn't miss any of Woody's tricks (whether Woody himself put it in his film consciously or unknowingly), and he doesn't get involved in the private life of Mr. Allen either. Sander is strictly business.
I read this book several times, as its contents surpass science and spacial relations in terms of how much one can fit in a book so small. If you put a book in water and it floats (which, I believe, is what happens when one puts a book in water) then Mr. Sander Lee's book would sink like a proverbial stone. And if reading the book in the States it would go all the way to China. Anyway, i found it best to view a specific film (let's say Stardust Memories) and then follow the viewing with the chapter dedicated to said film (in this case, Stardust Memories). Because if you saw the films like, oh I don't know, a decade ago, it's just not going to work out for you. Cause Sander is a genius. And you probably aren't.
Buy the book. Watch the movies (except Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, and Curse of the Jade Scorpion of course).
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