Robert Altman

Rick Armstrong is assistant professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. His written work has appeared in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.

• Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments     Introduction: “Diving Off the Deep End”      RICK ARMSTRONG1. Working with Robert Altman      MICHAEL MURPHY2. The Hypertext of Short Cuts: The Jazz in Altman’s Carver Soup      KRIN GABBARD3. “Doing Some Replacin’”: Gender, Genre and the Subversion of Dominant Ideology in the Music Scores      RICHARD R. NESS4. The Company’s Coming: The Hero, the Survivor, and the Victim in McCabe and Mrs. Miller      WILLIAM GRAEBNER5. Brewster McCloud and the Limits of the Historical Imagination      MARCOS SOARES6. Brewster McCloud’s ’60s Hangover      RICK ARMSTRONG7. Hard- Boiled Nebbish: The Jewish Humphrey Bogart in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam      JEREMY KAYE8. A Cinema of Plenty: Robert Altman and the Multi- Protagonist Film      MARIA DEL MAR AZCONA9. Art and Performance: Consolation at the End of Days      ROBERT T. SELFCombined Bibliography      About the Contributors      Index

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