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Robert Altman's subliminal reality / Robert T. Self.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.A48 S45 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Self, Robert T., 1941-
- Series:
- Commerce and mass culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Altman, Robert, 1925-2006--Criticism and interpretation.
- Altman, Robert.
- Altman, Robert, 1925-2006.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- With his complex and unconventional films, Robert Altman often draws an impassioned response from critics but bafflement and indifference from the general public. Some audiences have dismissed his movies as insignificant, unsatisfying, and unreadable. Ironically, Altman might agree: he makes films in order to challenge filmgoers' expectations of straightforward narratives and easily understood endings. In Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality, Robert T. Self sheds light on Altman's work and provides the most comprehensive analysis of his films to date. With close readings of classics like MASH, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Nashville, as well as the more recent films The Player, Short Cuts, and Cookie's Fortune, Self asserts the value of Altman's work not only to film theory and the entertainment industry but to American culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Authorial Voices vii
- Part I. Narrative Formations
- 1. Reading Strategies: Constructing Kansas City 3
- 2. New American Cinema and MASH 22
- 3. Art-Cinema Narration: 3 Women 45
- 4. Generic Art: Romance and Adventure 74
- Part II. Identities in Patriarchy
- 5. Masculine Subjects: Nixon, Tanner, and the Gingerbread Man 107
- 6. Resisting Women: Madness, Dreams, and Art 144
- Part III. Putting on the Show
- 7. Reflexive Show Business: Nashville and the Wild West 179
- 8. Fiction's Fashion: Paris Originals and Hollywood Imitations 215
- 9. Worlds Elsewhere: Short Cuts 244
- Conclusion: The Alternative Gaze 266.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315), filmography and index.
- ISBN:
- 081663789X
- 0816637903
- OCLC:
- 47870185
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