"Transforming the discrepancy between aesthetic artifice and actuality from a wellspring of extended gags to a source of thematic unity."
- Allen's "debate with himself" over the nature of art
- "Annie Hall's critique of the contrivances of art contains a significant equivocation"
- roman a clef aspect
- devices that point up artifice of film
- "the paradox of Annie Hall: reality, devices, artifice
"antimimetic emblems"
- Marshall McLuhan
- disparity between mental projections and actuality
- dramatization of emotional cost of awareness of the disparity between fantasy & reality
change of conception of the movie during post-production
- [original title & focus]
- deleted scenes