Peter Bailey is Frank P. Piskor Professor of English atSt. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he has taughtAmerican Literature, creative writing and film studies for 32years. In addition to The Reluctant Film Art of WoodyAllen (2001), he is the author of Reading Stanley Elkin(1986) and Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in JohnUpdike s Fiction (2006). He has also published on FrankConroy, Robert Coover, Joan Didion, Frederick Exley, John Irving,and Ronald Sukenick, and he is secretary of the national JohnUpdike Society. Sam B. Girgus is Professor of English at VanderbiltUniversity. He is a prolific author whose publicationsinclude The Films of Woody Allen (2nd edition, 2002) andLevinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and theFeminine (2010). He also has edited several works, includingThe American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture(1981). He is a recipient of a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowshipand other scholarly and teaching awards, and has lectured andtaught extensively in universities throughout America and theworld.