Refocus: the Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman

ISBN-13: 9781474478861 / Angielski

Lisa Dombrowski; Justin Wyatt

Opis

Examines an under-analysed period of Robert Altman's career Provides new critical perspectives on the Altman oeuvre Features original interviews with key Altman collaborators Offers case studies of Popeye, Tanner '88, Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Cookie's Fortune and A Prairie Home Companion, among others Illuminating the industrial, cultural and aesthetic significance of the later years of one of American cinema's most influential auteurs, this anthology combines scholarly essays, original interviews with Robert Altman's collaborators and previously unseen photographs from the Robert Altman Papers held at the Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library. The book considers post-1970s Altman as a way to rethink and reconceive his authorship, expanding our understanding of the development of Altman's personal aesthetic and production practices; his adaptation of existing source material; the representation of sex, gender and identity in his films; his relation to the changing landscape of American independent cinema; and his unfinished projects. Interviews with key Altman collaborators like Alan Rudolph, Ira Deutchman and Anne Rapp highlight their contributions to Altman's career. Rather than place aside the extensive work on Robert Altman to date, this comprehensive book offers texture and depth to previous ways of thinking about Altman's creativity and contribution to American cinema.

Spis treści

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