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4/16/01

SLU PROF'S BOOK ON WOODY ALLEN CELEBRATED

CANTON -- The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries 
at St. Lawrence University will celebrate the publication of 
The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen, by Professor of English 
Peter J. Bailey, with a reception on Friday, April 27, at 4 p.m. 
in Owen D. Young Library on campus. Bailey will speak about the 
book at the event, which is open to the public.
	Published in 2000 by the University Press of Kentucky, 
The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen "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."
 	A member of the St. Lawrence faculty since 1980, Bailey is 
also the author of the book Reading Stanley Elkin.

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