Woody Allen

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This paper discusses and analyzes Woody Allen's feelings of being Jewish in his films: "Hannah and her Sister," "Manhattan,"
"Deconstructing Harry," "Annie Hall" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors." The author believes that Allen's films all contain allusions to his Jewishness, it is a part of who he is, and it comes out in his writing, in his acting and in his directing. The paper states that each film looks at religion and faith in a different light, and yet each film has commonalities.

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""Crimes and Misdemeanors" may be Allen's most religiously based film even though all of his films are inherently Jewish. They simply cannot help themselves. In "Crimes," Judah (Allen) is renouncing his Jewish heritage, but he finds he simply cannot get away from it. Judah lives a prestigious but empty life in his huge mansion he shares with only his wife. He kills his mistress because he really cannot figure out any other way to be rid of her and is then riddled with typical Jewish guilt about his actions."

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