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For five generations, no American filmmaker has been as prolific or as paradoxical as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) to Midnight in Paris (2011) and Blue Jasmine (2013), Allen has produced typically one film annually; yet in several movies Allen discloses a progressively skeptical attitude toward both the value of artwork and the ethnic contributions of performers.In this second model Peter J. Bailey stretches his classic study to consider Allen's work during the twenty-first century. He illuminates the way the director's decision to leave NY to blast in European towns such as London, Paris, Rome, and Barcelona has afflicted his build. He also explores Allen's move toward younger celebrities and interprets the evolving critical reaction to his movies?authoritatively demonstrating why the director's lifelong project of moviemaking remains endlessly deserving of careful attention.The publication is released by College or university Press of Kentucky."Bailey's rigorous study will please the serious learner of film and of 20th-century imaginative impression." (Virginia Quarterly Review)"A significant contribution to American film studies." (American Studies)"Bailey knows Woody Allen's work forward and backward, and his publication makes many illuminating relationships among the movies in the Allen canon." (Christopher Ames, author of Movies About the Movies)
