Dr Lisa Dombrowski is a Professor of Film Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University Dr Justin Wyatt is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Journalism, and Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Autumnal Altman: Rethinking His Last Quarter Century - Lisa Dombrowski and Justin Wyatt Part 1: The Creative Process 1. I Yam What I Yam What I Yam: Altman and The Transpositional Poetics of Popeye - Mark Minett 2. For Real: Tanner ’88, Tanner on Tanner, and Political Spectacle in the Post-Network Era - Chuck Tryon 3. Home-Makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune - Nathan Koob 4. A Perfect Couple: The Altman-Rudolph Connection - Richard R. Ness 5. Unmade Altman:　What the Archive Tells Us - Philip Hallman Part 2: Industrial Frameworks 6. Offbeat and Out of Sync: Popeye and the Failure of an Auteur-Driven Franchise - Tim J. Anderson7. "Here Comes the Hot-Stepper": The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s - Yannis Tzioumakis 8. "I Fiddle on the Corner Where They Throw the Coins": Altman’s Brand in Europe - Lisa Dombrowski Part 3: New Perspectives on Altman 9. Fantasies and Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality in Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean - Sarah E. S. Sinwell 10. Countering Robert Altman’s Sexual Outlaws: Visibility, Representation and Questionable Social Progress - Justin Wyatt 11. The Affection of Death - Robert P. Kolker Part 4: Collaborator Interviews 12. Allan F. Nicholls 13. Alan Rudolph 14. Ira Deutchman 15. Matthew Seig 16. Wren Arthur 17. Joshua Astrachan 18. Anne Rapp 19. Andrew Dunn 20. Mitchell Zuckoff

Moving beyond Robert Altman’s early film career, ReFocus turns to the active, though critically overlooked, last 25 years of it. Each chapter teems with new takes and perspectives. A must for anyone interested in independent cinema, and for those who find Altman’s work as innovative and observant as the director himself was.

Dr Lisa Dombrowski is a Professor of Film Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University Dr Justin Wyatt is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Journalism, and Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Autumnal Altman: Rethinking His Last Quarter Century - Lisa Dombrowski and Justin Wyatt Part 1: The Creative Process 1. I Yam What I Yam What I Yam: Altman and The Transpositional Poetics of Popeye - Mark Minett 2. For Real: Tanner ’88, Tanner on Tanner, and Political Spectacle in the Post-Network Era - Chuck Tryon 3. Home-Makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune - Nathan Koob 4. A Perfect Couple: The Altman-Rudolph Connection - Richard R. Ness 5. Unmade Altman:　What the Archive Tells Us - Philip Hallman Part 2: Industrial Frameworks 6. Offbeat and Out of Sync: Popeye and the Failure of an Auteur-Driven Franchise - Tim J. Anderson7. "Here Comes the Hot-Stepper": The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s - Yannis Tzioumakis 8. "I Fiddle on the Corner Where They Throw the Coins": Altman’s Brand in Europe - Lisa Dombrowski Part 3: New Perspectives on Altman 9. Fantasies and Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality in Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean - Sarah E. S. Sinwell 10. Countering Robert Altman’s Sexual Outlaws: Visibility, Representation and Questionable Social Progress - Justin Wyatt 11. The Affection of Death - Robert P. Kolker Part 4: Collaborator Interviews 12. Allan F. Nicholls 13. Alan Rudolph 14. Ira Deutchman 15. Matthew Seig 16. Wren Arthur 17. Joshua Astrachan 18. Anne Rapp 19. Andrew Dunn 20. Mitchell Zuckoff

Moving beyond Robert Altman’s early film career, ReFocus turns to the active, though critically overlooked, last 25 years of it. Each chapter teems with new takes and perspectives. A must for anyone interested in independent cinema, and for those who find Altman’s work as innovative and observant as the director himself was.

Dr Lisa Dombrowski is a Professor of Film Studies and Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University Dr Justin Wyatt is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Journalism, and Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Autumnal Altman: Rethinking His Last Quarter Century - Lisa Dombrowski and Justin Wyatt Part 1: The Creative Process 1. I Yam What I Yam What I Yam: Altman and The Transpositional Poetics of Popeye - Mark Minett 2. For Real: Tanner ’88, Tanner on Tanner, and Political Spectacle in the Post-Network Era - Chuck Tryon 3. Home-Makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune - Nathan Koob 4. A Perfect Couple: The Altman-Rudolph Connection - Richard R. Ness 5. Unmade Altman:　What the Archive Tells Us - Philip Hallman Part 2: Industrial Frameworks 6. Offbeat and Out of Sync: Popeye and the Failure of an Auteur-Driven Franchise - Tim J. Anderson7. "Here Comes the Hot-Stepper": The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s - Yannis Tzioumakis 8. "I Fiddle on the Corner Where They Throw the Coins": Altman’s Brand in Europe - Lisa Dombrowski Part 3: New Perspectives on Altman 9. Fantasies and Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality in Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean - Sarah E. S. Sinwell 10. Countering Robert Altman’s Sexual Outlaws: Visibility, Representation and Questionable Social Progress - Justin Wyatt 11. The Affection of Death - Robert P. Kolker Part 4: Collaborator Interviews 12. Allan F. Nicholls 13. Alan Rudolph 14. Ira Deutchman 15. Matthew Seig 16. Wren Arthur 17. Joshua Astrachan 18. Anne Rapp 19. Andrew Dunn 20. Mitchell Zuckoff

Moving beyond Robert Altman’s early film career, ReFocus turns to the active, though critically overlooked, last 25 years of it. Each chapter teems with new takes and perspectives. A must for anyone interested in independent cinema, and for those who find Altman’s work as innovative and observant as the director himself was.