JOURNALISTS IN WOODY ALLEN FILMS: HEROINES OF EXCLUSIVE STORIES IN THE FACE OF SEXIST STEREOTYPES

Abstract

Journalism plans on Woody Allen's cinematography and an investigative review is necessary to
detect the meaning of the media and informants in the work of the American filmmaker. In addition
to occasional appearances throughout the plot in dozens of titles, there are two main characters with
the journalists of Scoop (2006) and A Rainy Day in New York (2019), both films that occupy a large
part of the present investigation. This work opts for structuralist methods of character analysis
inspired by the Russian author Vladimir Propp and his Short Story Morphology (1928). Since the
genius of world cinema has more than a hundred books about his life and work, most of them from
the past 20th century, this research work focuses the time frame on his most recent films to obtain
results from his less studied career. In the 14 films analyzed, a high presence of journalistic moments
is detected and in the two stories with main characters it is observed that both women stand as two
heroines of journalism who have to face valuable exclusives but also ironic sexist stereotypes.