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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rick ArmstrongPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9780786444144ISBN 10: 0786444142 Pages: 205 Publication Date: 04 March 2011 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsTable 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 IndexReviewsrecommended --Choice. """recommended""--Choice." recommended --<i>Choice</i>. Author InformationRick 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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