Reconstructing Woody

Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen

By (author) Mary P. Nichols

Not available to order

Publication date:

23 August 2000

Length of book:

240 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442207462

In this pathbreaking new book, Mary P. Nichols challenges this, arguing that Allen's work, from Play It Again, Sam to Deconstructing Harry, is actually an attempt to explore and reconcile the tension between art and life.
Miss Nichols' approach to the topic of Woody Allen is peculiar, as she is a professor of political science, not film studies. What she brings to Mr. Allen's films is a way of thinking and analyzing that is unavailable to the run-of-the-mill film studiesprofessor or critic....