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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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Diving Off the Deep End"
RICK ARMSTRONG
1. Working with Robert Altman
MICHAEL MURPHY
2. The Hypertext of Short Cuts: The Jazz in Altman's Carver Soup
KRIN GABBARD
3. "Doing Some Replacin'": Gender, Genre and the Subversion of Dominant Ideology in the Music Scores
RICHARD R. NESS
4. The Company's Coming: The Hero, the Survivor, and the Victim in McCabe and Mrs. Miller
WILLIAM GRAEBNER
5. Brewster McCloud and the Limits of the Historical Imagination
MARCOS SOARES
6. Brewster McCloud's '60s Hangover
RICK ARMSTRONG
7. Hard- Boiled Nebbish: The Jewish Humphrey Bogart in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam
JEREMY KAYE
8. A Cinema of Plenty: Robert Altman and the Multi- Protagonist Film
MARIA DEL MAR AZCONA
9. Art and Performance: Consolation at the End of Days
ROBERT T. SELF
Combined Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
