Analysis of Woody Allen's short story Sam you made the pants too fragrant

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Communications - Miscellaneous grade: 20 University of Siegen course: Mere Anarchy? Woody Allen Films language: English abstract: Woody Allen born Allen Stewart Konigsberg is a Jewish artist who is mostly known as filmmaker - but he carries several faces and puts his work into several fields. Although his movies often seem to deal with the same topics Allen never concentrates on only one genre as we worked out during our seminar and the expert sessions. Besides his widely spread image of the intellectual and humorous filmmaker he put his thoughts into prose and stand-up comedy too; he wrote articles for magazines like New York Times Playboy or The New Republic and of course he is known through his roles in his own films. By acting out his own roles he has written Woody Allen as the private person and the public known Woody Allen somehow melted together; so the viewer can find more personal elements in Allen`s movies as he or she may expect. Or better said he by some means performed himself through the stories of his films.Besides the fact that Allen mostly acted out the role of the protagonist in his movies and barring that the topics of the movies seem to be repetitive there are other typical elements that continuously appear in his movies what in this paper - as it already have been in our expert session - will be depicted as allenesque elements. These are for instance the neurotic characters the Jewishness (that apparently refers to his private persona) the psycho-analysis the fusion of reality and fiction unhappy relationships love-affairs and the element of the anxious behavior towards special issues of some of his characters are just a number of the main subjects that are typical of Woody Allen stories. But Allen`s audience is not only confronted with these topics in his movies; as already mentioned he also developed his ideas in prose and short stories.With his book Mere Ana