A Companion to Woody Allen

“I recommend this book for academic libraries that support upper-level film studies, media and literature programmes.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014)

“Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.”  (Choice, 1 October 2013)

"A Companion to Woody Allen is a challenging and enjoyable read, with much of interest to both academic and nonacademic audiences." (Review of Contemporary Philosophy, 16, 2017)

Peter Bailey is Frank P. Piskor Professor of English at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he has taught American Literature, creative writing and film studies for 32 years.  In addition to The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen (2001), he is the author of Reading Stanley Elkin (1986) and Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike’s Fiction (2006). He has also published on Frank Conroy, Robert Coover, Joan Didion, Frederick Exley, John Irving, and Ronald Sukenick, and he is secretary of the national John Updike Society.

Sam B. Girgus is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.  He is a prolific author whose publications include The Films of Woody Allen (2nd edition, 2002) and Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine (2010). He also has edited several works, including The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture (1981). He is a recipient of a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship and other scholarly and teaching awards, and has lectured and taught extensively in universities throughout America and the world.