A companion to Robert Altman /

A Companion to Robert Altman presents myriad aspects of Altman's life, career, influence and historical context. This book features 23 essays from a range of experts in the field, providing extensive coverage of these aspects and dimensions of Altman's work. The most expansive and wide-ran...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Danks, Adrian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Temas:
Altman, Robert, > 1925-2006 > Criticism and interpretation.
Altman, Robert, > 1925-2006
Altman, Robert > 1925-2006
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Title page
  • Contributors
  • 1 "It's OK with me"
  • Finding Altman
  • Altman's Geographies
  • Altman and the Critics, or Canonizing Altman
  • Altman's Legacy
  • References
  • Part One: Zoom in: Becoming Altman
  • 2 Sponsoring the Hollywood Renaissance
  • The Calvin Company: Institutional Context and the Director/Producer System
  • Calvin, Competencies and Refining the "Training Ground" Thesis
  • Altman's Industriousness: Pushing Against the Limits of the Training Ground
  • Calvin's Industrial Prerogatives and the Creation of "Robert Altman"
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 From Alfred Hitchcock Presents to Tanner on Tanner
  • Routine Assignments
  • Drawing Out the Potential of Actors
  • Creative Approaches
  • Later Work
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • 4 Just a Station on His Way? Altman's Transition From Television to Film
  • Altman's Early Television
  • Bus Stop
  • Altman and the Zoom
  • Zooms in Early Altman Features
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Breaking the Rules
  • Emphases and Parameters
  • Reviewers and Reviewing
  • Early Reviews
  • The Ruckus Begins
  • Hollywood
  • Nashville
  • Running on the Ice
  • Altman in the Reagan Era
  • The Final Years
  • References
  • Part Two: "I've got poetry in me": Seeing and Hearing Altman
  • 6 The Porous Frame
  • Introduction: Framing Authorship
  • Cinema in Process
  • Charting Idiosyncratic Form
  • Looking for Style
  • Cinema "en passant": Impressionist Images and Film-Viewer Relations
  • The Ubiquitous Zoom: Vertiginous Proximity, Movement, Textures
  • Remaking Widescreen Space: Stretching, Constricting, Flattening
  • Conclusion: Distance and Plasticity
  • References
  • 7 3 Women
  • Allegory in Watercolor
  • Duplications and Dissolvings
  • Fluid Worlds
  • References
  • 8 The Multitrack World of California Split
  • The Road to California Split
  • Making California Split.
  • Listening to Altman
  • Living in Altmanville
  • The Empty Universe
  • Placing California Split
  • The Long Goodbye
  • References
  • 9 The Democratic Voice
  • Prelude
  • MASH
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • The Long Goodbye
  • Thieves Like Us
  • California Split
  • Nashville
  • Coda
  • References
  • 10 Creativity and Compromise
  • Altman and Music
  • Altman's Song Tracks of the Early 1970s
  • The Missing Soundtrack of California Split
  • Altman's Music After California Split
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part Three: Placing Altman: Space, History and Genre
  • Chapter 11: High Hollywood in The Long Goodbye
  • A Floating Signifier
  • A Hawk's Eye View
  • Sun-bleached Noir
  • Alone in Tinsel Town
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • 12 Altman and the Western, or a Hollywood Director's History Lesson of the American West
  • The Western as Altman's Métier
  • Altman's Alternative Westerns
  • Altman's Antihero as Hero
  • Altman's History Lesson
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 13 Altman/Nixon/Reagan
  • Introduction
  • Out of Hollywood: Altman Moves Toward Theatre and History
  • Reagan's Ahistorical American Dream
  • Nixon: Embodying American Resentments, Stresses and Anger
  • What Kind of "Honor"?
  • Not Alike: Altman Transcends Nixon Through the Rhetoric of Cinema
  • References
  • 14 LA and Paris
  • Social Geography
  • Massey's For Space
  • Short Cuts
  • Contested Space
  • The Chance of Space
  • Political Space
  • Prêt-à-Porter
  • Messy Multiplicities
  • Competitive Indirection
  • Responsible Engagement
  • Stories-so-Far
  • References
  • 15 "The Man I Love," or Time Regained
  • Introduction: Inside the Altmanesque
  • "Hi ya, Cary:" Altman and Film History
  • Goin' to Kansas City: Altman and the Past
  • Meeting at the Crossroads: Altman's Kansas City
  • Ivor Novello, Lester Young, Jean Harlow and Rudy Vallee: Altman, Popular Culture and the 1930s.
  • "In my solitude," or the Band Plays On
  • References
  • Part Four: Being Altman: Character, Performance and Situation
  • 16 "One is both the same"
  • New Hollywood and the "Women's Picture"
  • A Cinema of Repression
  • From "Culture" to Counterculture
  • The "I" and the Other
  • "Doubling" the Double?
  • The Glamour of Failure
  • References
  • 17 Nashville
  • The Evolution of the Second City Style
  • Second City Improvisation and Altman's Cinema
  • Altman, Hollywood and Cultural Change: The Romantic Couple in Crisis
  • Nashville's Production Process: Community and Authorship
  • Altman's Theater Games
  • Character, Performance Style and Modern Identity: From Couples to Community
  • References
  • 18 Altman
  • 19 Lawful Lawyer, Vigilante Father
  • Introduction: Reasoning Revenge
  • The Gingerbread Man: Morality and the Role of the Law
  • Altman's Interrogation of Value Systems
  • Rick Magruder and the Limitations of the Legal System
  • Clinton-Era Noir and the Dangers of Sex
  • The Paterfamilias as Extra-Legal Protector
  • Dixon Doss: The Monstrous Father
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part Five: Zoom out: After "Altman"
  • 20 Staging the "Rebel's Return"
  • Renaissance of a (New) Hollywood Rebel: Altman's Authorial Return
  • Indulging in Incomplete Sentences: Popular History, Textual Selectivity and The Player's Opening Shot
  • Having Your Art and Eating it Too: Marketing, Promotion and Competing Authorizing Discourses
  • Art, Now More Than Ever: Remembering Altman Through Short Cuts
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • 21 The End of the Hollywood Hero
  • The Single Hero and Multi-Protagonist Films
  • Altman and Narrative Form
  • "The Sexiest Man Alive": Richard Gere's Star Persona
  • The Male Hero vs. the Female Ensemble
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • 22 The Long Reach of Short Cuts
  • Short Cuts
  • Magnolia
  • Crash
  • Powder Blue.
  • Crossing Over
  • Shrink
  • References
  • 23 Kicking and Screaming
  • America America
  • Altman's Worlds
  • Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Noah Baumbach
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
  • End User License Agreement.

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