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Article: Woody Allen: A Casebook.(Book Review)
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- Film Criticism
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- March 22, 2002
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Kimball King, editor New York: Routledge, 2001 xviii + 158 pp.; $65.00, cloth
In terms of the Woody Allen scholarship, the critics have almost been as prolific as the filmmaker himself. In the past ten years there have been several book-length studies--most notably Sam B. Girgus's The Films of Woody Allen (1993), Julian Fox's Woody: Movies from Manhattan (1996), Mary P. Nichols's Reconstructing Woody (1998), and Peter J. Bailey's The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (2001)--as well as biographies by Eric Lax (1991), John Baxter (1998), and Marion Meade (2000). The most recent contribution to this canon is Woody Allen: A Casebook, another in Routledge's ...