Interprets the life and work of director Robert Altman from a variety of perspectives. Included are insights on Altman and his five-decade career from actors, historians, film scholars, and cultural theorists. Two actors who have appeared in some of the filmmaker's most important works are prominently represented, with a statement from Elliot Gould and an essay by Michael Murphy.
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Interprets the life and work of director Robert Altman from a variety of perspectives. Included are insights on Altman and his five-decade career from actors, historians, film scholars, and cultural theorists. Two actors who have appeared in some of the filmmaker's most important works are prominently represented, with a statement from Elliot Gould and an essay by Michael Murphy.
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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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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.
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