Parody an metafiction in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite
- Autores: Sonia Baelo Allué
- Localización: Epos: Revista de filología, ISSN 0213-201X, Nº 15, 1999, págs. 391-408
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Woody Alien constantly employs parody and metafiction as means of achieving comic effects in his films. He often uses metafiction by playing "himself", the schizophrenic insecure Jew with black-rimmed glasses, and by letting events of his private life enter his films. In this way, the boundaries between fiction and real life are blurred Parody is also present in his films through the exaggeration and decontextualitation of Hollywood films, genre conventions, and/or his own film techniques, the so-called "Allenist devices". Bearing in mind these characteristic strategies of Alien's style, my paper focuses on Mighty Aphrodite, since it is one of the films that best employs both parody and metafiction and that best encompasses Allen's style and spirit as an "auteur".
