The Stand‐up Auteur

Sayad, Cecília

doi:10.1002/9781118514870.ch1

“…Allen's filmic text is a hypertextual construct that builds on previous texts about Rome. He is an avid admirer of Federico Fellini (Sayad, 2013), so it is not surprising that Fellini's Lo sceicco bianco (The White Sheik, 1952) constitutes a clear hypotext, or 'an earlier text' (Genette, 1997: 5). Both the films are concerned with newlywed couples from small provincial towns who come to Rome for their honeymoon but get separated at the beginning of the film.…”

Section: Rome: the City Of Cinemamentioning

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To Woody Allen’s Rome with Love: Four city profiles

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2023

Journal of European Studies

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This article focuses on Woody Allen’s cinematic representation of Rome in To Rome with Love (2012). Rome is undoubtedly one of the most intertextually ‘contaminated’ cityscapes in the world, which means that there are so many pre-existing texts about it, such as paintings, novels, travel guides and films, that our minds are filled with predetermined notions of what the city is like. There are at least two well-established traditions of representing Rome that influence the way the city has been imagined. This article explores where Allen’s film stands within the tradition by focusing on four specific semantic profiles or scripts of the city overlooked by the film’s reviewers.

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“…Allan's dual co-existence in high and low forms of entertainment is played out in several of his films. The combination and juxtaposition of high and low art, on an aesthetic level, forSayad (2013) "constitutes the director's personal signature" (p. 23). These contrasts are exemplified when Annie Hall's and Mighty Aphrodite…”

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Funny feelings: taking love to the cinema with Woody Allen

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2021

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This dissertation utilizes the films of Woody Allen in order to position the cinema as a site where realizing and practicing an embodied experience of love is possible. This dissertation challenges pessimistic readings of Woody Allen’s film that render love difficult, if not impossible. By challenging assumptions about love, this dissertation opens a dialogue not only about the representation of love, but the understanding of love. Rather than a Platonic love of unity, this dissertation combines the phenomenological work of Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Marion to describe a love of letting be. A love of letting be focuses on the lived experience of love as a phenomenology. In a love of letting be it is the intent of both lovers to regard each other as an unknowable whole, whom they must support and whose mystery they must protect. The transformations of four characters from Allen’s cinema, Allan Felix of Play it Again, Sam, Alvy Singer of Annie Hall, Cecilia of The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Mickey Sachs of Hannah and her Sisters serve as illustrations of how coming to a love of letting be is possible. The four characters, the nervous romantics, come to understand a love of letting be through their experience in the cinema. Their experience in the cinema comes to enlighten their understanding and living of love as a love of letting be.

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Funny feelings: taking love to the cinema with Woody Allen

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2021

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This dissertation utilizes the films of Woody Allen in order to position the cinema as a site where realizing and practicing an embodied experience of love is possible. This dissertation challenges pessimistic readings of Woody Allen’s film that render love difficult, if not impossible. By challenging assumptions about love, this dissertation opens a dialogue not only about the representation of love, but the understanding of love. Rather than a Platonic love of unity, this dissertation combines the phenomenological work of Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Marion to describe a love of letting be. A love of letting be focuses on the lived experience of love as a phenomenology. In a love of letting be it is the intent of both lovers to regard each other as an unknowable whole, whom they must support and whose mystery they must protect. The transformations of four characters from Allen’s cinema, Allan Felix of Play it Again, Sam, Alvy Singer of Annie Hall, Cecilia of The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Mickey Sachs of Hannah and her Sisters serve as illustrations of how coming to a love of letting be is possible. The four characters, the nervous romantics, come to understand a love of letting be through their experience in the cinema. Their experience in the cinema comes to enlighten their understanding and living of love as a love of letting be.

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The Stand‐up Auteur

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To Woody Allen’s Rome with Love: Four city profiles

To Woody Allen’s Rome with Love: Four city profiles

Funny feelings: taking love to the cinema with Woody Allen

Funny feelings: taking love to the cinema with Woody Allen

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