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(2017) Hermeneutics of the film world, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Set in a New York City that moves to the incessant pace of its neuroses, Manhattan (Allen1979) is a film marked by a strong bond of identity between the protagonist and his city. This aspect emerges starting in the opening scene through and undergoes the continuous reformulations of the protagonist Isaac Davis who, as an emotionally unstable and chronically dissatisfied television writer, is struggling with the first lines of a new novel. From the beginning, New York becomes a form of identity—the identity of both the city and the protagonist who lives in it. Isaac's repeated attempts to define New York suggest to filmgoers not merely the representation of a place but the symbolic identification of a film world, which is not only the personal and subjective world of the film's protagonist but also one that can be recognized and shared. Manhattan's identity is expressed through the four main ecologies that typify its film world.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65400-3_7
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Baracco, A. (2017). Manhattan: the film world as identity, in Hermeneutics of the film world, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-200.
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