ISBN: 9783825353889

Woody Allen is one of America's most prolific authors, actors, and auteur film directors. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, has always been marked by a postmodern play with convention… Mehr…

Woody Allen is one of America's most prolific authors, actors, and auteur film directors. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, has always been marked by a postmodern play with conventions, experimental techniques, and explorations of the status quo of modern urban lives. Yet, Woody Allen is also a nostalgic who makes the history of his nation, his people, and his individual subjects the constant theme of his work. Whether cryogenically frozen Miles Monroe wakes up in the future only to misinform scientists about the past; whether stand-up comedian Alvy Singer reminisces his relationship to Annie Hall; or, whether ophtalmologist Judah Rosenthal is tormented by his memory of his Jewish rabbinical father after having had his girlfriend killed; the past, whether personal or communal, is always an integral part of Allen's characterizations and plots. Contrary to the assumption that postmodernity is necessarily linked to the future only and negates all history, the present study argues that postmodern subjects very much depend on an active evaluation of the past and that, through the lens of history, present crises and traumata can be overcome. In this way, nostalgia manages to bring history back into postmodernism. Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher 21.7 cm x 14.5 cm x 2.3 cm mm , Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, Gebundene Ausgabe, Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg<

ISBN: 9783825353889

Woody Allen is one of America's most prolific authors, actors, and auteur film directors. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, has always been marked by a postmodern play with convention… Mehr…

Woody Allen is one of America's most prolific authors, actors, and auteur film directors. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, has always been marked by a postmodern play with conventions, experimental techniques, and explorations of the status quo of modern urban lives. Yet, Woody Allen is also a nostalgic who makes the history of his nation, his people, and his individual subjects the constant theme of his work. Whether cryogenically frozen Miles Monroe wakes up in the future only to misinform scientists about the past; whether stand-up comedian Alvy Singer reminisces his relationship to Annie Hall; or, whether ophtalmologist Judah Rosenthal is tormented by his memory of his Jewish rabbinical father after having had his girlfriend killed; the past, whether personal or communal, is always an integral part of Allen's characterizations and plots. Contrary to the assumption that postmodernity is necessarily linked to the future only and negates all history, the present study argues that postmodern subjects very much depend on an active evaluation of the past and that, through the lens of history, present crises and traumata can be overcome. In this way, nostalgia manages to bring history back into postmodernism. Trade Books>Hardcover>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, Universitatsverlag Winter Core >2<

ISBN: 9783825353889

Woody Allen is one of America's most prolific authors, actors, and auteur film directors. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, has always been marked by a postmodern play with convention… Mehr…

Woody Allen is one of America's most prolific authors, actors, and auteur film directors. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, has always been marked by a postmodern play with conventions, experimental techniques, and explorations of the status quo of modern urban lives. Yet, Woody Allen is also a nostalgic who makes the history of his nation, his people, and his individual subjects the constant theme of his work. Whether cryogenically frozen Miles Monroe wakes up in the future only to misinform scientists about the past; whether stand-up comedian Alvy Singer reminisces his relationship to Annie Hall; or, whether ophtalmologist Judah Rosenthal is tormented by his memory of his Jewish rabbinical father after having had his girlfriend killed; the past, whether personal or communal, is always an integral part of Allen's characterizations and plots. Contrary to the assumption that postmodernity is necessarily linked to the future only and negates all history, the present study argues that postmodern subjects very much depend on an active evaluation of the past and that, through the lens of history, present crises and traumata can be overcome. In this way, nostalgia manages to bring history back into postmodernism. Buch 21.7 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm , Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg<

2009, ISBN: 9783825353889

[ED: gebunden], [PU: Universitätsverlag Winter], Postmodern Nostalgia in Woody Allen's Work. Woody Allen's oeuvre, which spans five decades, has always been marked by a postmodern play wi… Mehr…

[ED: gebunden], [PU: Universitätsverlag Winter], Postmodern Nostalgia in Woody Allen's Work. Woody Allen's oeuvre, which spans five decades, has always been marked by a postmodern play with conventions, experimental techniques, and explorations of the status quo of modern urban lives. Yet, Woody Allen is also a nostalgic who makes the history of his nation, his people, and his individual subjects the constant theme of his work. Contrary to the assumption that postmodernity is necessarily linked to the future only and negates all history, this study argues that postmodern subjects very much depend on an active evaulation of the past and that, through the lens of history, present crises and traumata can be overcome. In this way, nostalgia manages to bring history back into postmodernism. IX,288 Seiten, gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 157/Universitätsverlag Winter 2009), DE, [SC: 4.50], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, IX,288 Seiten, [GW: 458g], Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<