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CANTON, N.Y. -- Filmmaker Woody Allen's often tense relationships between art and life and audience and artist are examined in a new book by St. Lawrence University Professor of English Peter J. Bailey.
"The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen" has just been published by the University Press of Kentucky. In it, the publisher states, Bailey "demonstrates how Allen's films repeatedly revisit and reconfigure the tension between image and reality, art and life, fabrication and factuality, with each film reaching provisional resolutions that a subsequent movie will revise...By illuminating the thematic conflict at the heart of Allen's work, Bailey seeks not only to clarify the aesthetic designs of individual Allen films but to demonstrate how his oeuvre enacts an ongoing debate the screenwriter/director has been conducting with himself between creating cinematic narratives affirming the saving powers of the human imagination and making films acknowledging the irresolvably dark truths of the human condition."
Bailey is a graduate of the New School for Social Research, with a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1980, Bailey is also the author of the book "Reading Stanley Elkin."
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