Considering the current climate of the treatment of women in Hollywood following the Harvey Weinstein case, many male celebrities have been brought forward on charges of sexual harassment, including Woody Allen, who has once again appeared in the press in relation to historic charges of molestation.
Within the context of the #MeToo era, this edited volume brings together researchers to consider how women are represented in the broader sphere of Hollywood cinema, to consider the notion of the male perspective on writing women, and to explore the various approaches to relationships with and between women on screen – all through the lens of the work of Woody Allen. While acknowledging the problematic consideration of the autobiographical nature of filmmaking, this book explores the role and representation of women throughout Allen’s films, plays, stand-up comedy, and other writings. With more recent industrial attention towards the production of his work (notably Amazon Studios refusing to distribute a completed film), the work of Woody Allen remains markedly problematic and demands interrogation, demonstrating the timeliness of this current volume.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- ‘I’m interested in the relationships that women have with other women’
- Part 1: Temptation, Destruction and Collapse
- 1 ‘The Woman Destroyed’ in Blue Jasmine
- 2 ‘New York Was His Town, and It Always Would Be…’
- Narrative Storytelling and the Vexing Role of Women in Manhattan
- Part 2: Art and the Family
- 3 Hannah and Her Father
- Decoding the Eternal Feminine
- 4 Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the Politics of Toxic Female Friendship
- 5 ‘A Particularly Cruel Business for a Woman’
- Nineteenth-Century Opera as Feminist Voice in Match Point
- Part 3: Intertextuality
- 6 I Gotta Be Me
- The Remade Woman and Replaying the Woman’s Part in Woody Allen’s Movies
- 7 Negotiating ‘Dis-ease’
- Jewish Women in the Work of Woody Allen
- Part 4: Sound and Body
- 8 The Silent (Film) Woman
- Sweet and Lowdown’s Mute Muse
- 9 ‘Some Nights It’s the Only Game in Town’
- The Prostitute in Woody Allen’s Oeuvre
- Part 5: The Muse and Inspiration
- 10 Too Much, Too Young?
- Woody Allen’s Life, Work and Women in the #MeToo Era
- 11 ‘She’s a Genius, and I Don’t Use That Word Casually’
- Elaine May’s Collaborative Relationship with Woody Allen
- 12 Keaton and Allen
- Collaboration and the Screwball Couple in Annie Hall and Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Index
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