Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed Anguish God And Existentialism Sander H Lee by Sander H. Lee 9780786481101, 0786481102 instant download after payment.

This new textbook is an abridgment of the author's earlier Woody Allen's Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on His Serious Films (McFarland, 1997; "invaluable"--Choice.)
Five main topics are explored:
-The desire of many of his characters to ground their lives in traditional ethical values despite their realization that such values may no longer be certain;
-The opposition between pessimism and optimism throughout his films;
-Gender issues relating to romantic love, sexual desire and the ongoing changes in our cultural expectations of both men and women;
-The idea that contemporary American society is rapidly descending into barbarism precisely because of societal failure to maintain a sense of individual moral responsibility;
-And a critique of psychoanalysis as a method for understanding human behavior.