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12/11/00

SLU PROFESSOR WRITES BOOK ON WOODY ALLEN

CANTON -- 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 the author of the book Reading Stanley Elkin.

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