Refocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman / / ed. by Lisa Dombrowski, Justin Wyatt.
Examines an under-analysed period of Robert Altman’s careerProvides new critical perspectives on the Altman oeuvreFeatures original interviews with key Altman collaboratorsOffers case studies of Popeye, Tanner ‘88, Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Cookie’s Fortune and A Prai...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Autumnal Altman—Rethinking his Last Quarter Century
- Part I The Creative Process
- Figure I.1 Robert Altman on the set of Short Cuts. Photo by Joyce Rudolph. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library
- 1 I Yam What I Yam What I Yam: Altman and the Transpositional Poetics of Popeye
- 2 For Real: Tanner ’88, Tanner on Tanner, and the Political Spectacle in the Post-Network Era
- 3 Home-makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune
- 4 A Perfect Couple: The Altman–Rudolph Connection
- 5 Unmade Altman: What the Archive Tells Us
- Part II Industrial Frameworks
- Figure II.1 Storyboard of the storm sequence in Dr. T & the Women. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library.
- 6 Offbeat and Out of Sync: Popeye and the Failure of an Auteur-Driven Franchise
- 7 “Here Comes the Hot-Stepper”: The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s
- 8 “I Fiddle on the Corner Where They Throw the Coins”: Altman’s Brand in Europe
- Part III New Perspectives on Altman
- Figure III.1 Robert Altman on the set of Dr. T & the Women. Photo by Zade Rosenthal. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library
- 9 Fantasies and Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
- 10 Countering Robert Altman’s Sexual Outlaws: Visibility, Representation, and Questionable Social Progress
- 11 The Affection of Death
- Part IV Collaborator Interviews
- Figure IV.1 Stephen Rea in Prêt-à-Porter as drawn by fashion illustrator Gladys Perint Palmer. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library
- 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
- Index