List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Autumnal Altman: Rethinking His Last Quarter Century, Lisa Dombrowski and Justin Wyatt; Part 1: The Creative Process; 1: I Yam What I Yam What I Yam: Altman and The Transpositional Poetics of Popeye, Mark Minett; 2: For Real: Tanner ’88, Tanner on Tanner, and Political Spectacle in the Post-Network Era, Chuck Tryon; 3: Home-Makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune, Nathan Koob; 4: A Perfect Couple: The Altman-Rudolph Connection, Richard R. Ness; 5: Unmade Altman: What the Archive Tells Us, Philip Hallman; Part 2: Industrial Frameworks; 6: Offbeat and Out of Sync: Popeye and the Failure of an Auteur-Driven Franchise, Tim J. Anderson; 7: “Here Comes the Hot-Stepper”: The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s, Yannis Tzioumakis; 8: “I Fiddle on the Corner Where They Throw the Coins”: Altman’s Brand in Europe, Lisa Dombrowski; Part 3: New Perspectives on Altman; 9: Fantasies and Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality in Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Sarah E. S. Sinwell; 10: Countering Robert Altman’s Sexual Outlaws: Visibility, Representation and Questionable Social Progress, Justin Wyatt; 11: The Affection of Death, Robert P. Kolker; Part 4: Collaborator Interviews; 12: Allan F. Nicholls; 13: Alan Rudolph; 14: Ira Deutchman; 15: Matthew Seig; 16: Wren Arthur; 17: Joshua Astrachan; 18: Anne Rapp; 19: Andrew Dunn; 20: Mitchell Zuckoff