Robert Altman

Critical Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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The life and work of motion picture director Robert Altman (1925-2006) are interpreted from a variety of perspectives in this collection of essays. Actors, historians, film scholars, and cultural theorists reflect on Altman and his five-decade career and discuss the significance of music, history and genre in his films.Two actors who have appeared in some of the filmmaker's most important works are prominently represented, with a statement from Elliot Gould (MASH, The Long Goodbye, California Split) and an essay by Michael Murphy (McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, Tanner '88). The collection ends with an essay on the importance of death in the director's final productions The Company (2003) and Prairie Home Companion (2006) by noted Altman scholar Robert T. Self.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-03-04
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt286 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor205
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786444144

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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