Robert Altman and the elaboration of Hollywood storytelling / Mark Minett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minett, Mark, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Altman, Robert, 1925-2006--Criticism and interpretation.

Altman, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This work reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the 'New Hollywood' period of the early 1970s sheds new light on both the films and the filmmaker, reframing Altman as a pragmatic innovator whose work exceeds, but is also grounded in, the norms of classical Hollywood storytelling.

Contents:

1. Perverse Clotheslines: Altman and Narrative Elaboration

2. Quantifying the Subliminal: Altman and the Elaborative Zoom

3. Elaborate Chaos: Altman and Overlapping Dialogue

4. Improvisation, Transposition, and Elaboration: Altman Unscripted?

5. Institutional Elaboration: Altman's Training Grounds.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-752386-2

0-19-752384-6

0-19-752385-4