{"product_id":"a-companion-to-robert-altman-isbn-9781118288900","title":"A Companion to Robert Altman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Robert Altman\u003c\/i\u003e presents myriad aspects of Altman’s life, career, influence and historical context. This book features 23 essays from a range of experts in the field, providing extensive coverage of these aspects and dimensions of Altman’s work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe most expansive and wide-ranging book yet published on Altman, providing a comprehensive account of Altman’s complete career\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides discussion and analysis of generally neglected aspects of Altman’s career, including the significance of his work in television and industrial film, the importance of collaboration, and the full range and import of his aesthetic innovations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes essays by key scholars in “Altman studies”, bringing together experts in the field, emerging scholars and writers from a broad range of fields\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMulti-disciplinary in design and draws on a range of approaches to Altman’s work, being the first substantial publication to make use of the recently launched Robert Altman Archive at the University of Michigan\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers specific insights into particular aspects of film style and their application, industrial and aesthetic film and TV history, and particular areas such as the theorisation of space, place, authorship and gender\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 “It’s OK with me”: Introducing Robert Altman 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdrian Danks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One Zoom in: Becoming Altman 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Sponsoring the Hollywood Renaissance: Reappraising Altman’s Industrial Films 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Minett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 From \u003ci\u003eAlfred Hitchcock Presents to Tanner on Tanner\u003c\/i\u003e: The Long Tail of Altman’s Television Career 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTony Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Just a Station on His Way? Altman’s Transition from Television to Film 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNick Hall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Breaking the Rules: Altman, Innovation and the Critics 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Sterritt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two “I’ve got Poetry in Me”: Seeing and Hearing Altman 117\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Porous Frame: Visual Style in Altman’s 1970s Films 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamish Ford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 \u003ci\u003e3 Women\u003c\/i\u003e: Floating Above the Awful Abyss 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe McElhaney and \u003c\/i\u003eIn memory of Tom Hopkins\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Multitrack World of \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Split \u003c\/i\u003e166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWheeler Winston Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Democratic Voice: Altman’s Sound Aesthetics in the 1970s 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJay Beck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Creativity and Compromise: \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Split’s \u003c\/i\u003eOriginal Soundtrack 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGayle Magee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three Placing Altman: Space, History and Genre 231\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 High Hollywood in \u003ci\u003eThe Long Goodbye \u003c\/i\u003e233\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurray Pomerance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Altman and the Western, or a Hollywood Director’s History Lesson of the American West 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Teo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Altman\/Nixon\/Reagan: Honorable Secrets, Historical Analogies and the Nexus of Anger 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRick Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 LA and Paris: The Construction of Social Space in the Films of Altman 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert T. Self\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 “The Man I Love,” or Time Regained: Altman, History and \u003ci\u003eKansas City \u003c\/i\u003e321\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdrian Danks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four Being Altman: Character, Performance and Situation 347\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 “One is Both the Same”: Fantasy and Female Psychosis in \u003ci\u003eImages \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThat Cold Day in the Park \u003c\/i\u003e349\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Melville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 \u003ci\u003eNashville\u003c\/i\u003e: Second City Performance Comes to Hollywood 369\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia Wright Wexman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Altman: The Artist in Middle Age 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristos Tsiolkas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Lawful Lawyer, Vigilante Father: Altman, Masculinity and \u003ci\u003eThe Gingerbread Man \u003c\/i\u003e401\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Dorey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five Zoom out: After “Altman” 423\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Staging the “Rebel’s Return”: \u003ci\u003eThe Player, Short Cuts \u003c\/i\u003eand the Precarious Art of the Comeback 425\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimitrios Pavlounis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The End of the Hollywood Hero: \u003ci\u003eDr T \u0026amp; the Women \u003c\/i\u003eand Altman’s Multi]Protagonist Narratives 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaría del Mar Azcona\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Long Reach of \u003ci\u003eShort Cuts \u003c\/i\u003e465\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert P. Kolker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Kicking and Screaming: Altmanesque Cynicism and Energy in the Work of Paul Thomas Anderson and Noah Baumbach 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Perkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 501\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAdrian Danks\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of Higher Degree Research in the School of Media and Communication, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (University). He is also co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eSenses of Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published widely on various subjects including found footage cinema, auteurism, cinephilia, rear-projection, the film-on-film, Iranian cinema, Australian cinema, film restoration and home movies in a range of books and journals.  \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Robert Altman\u003c\/i\u003e presents a wide selection of essays covering myriad perspectives on Altman’s life, career, influence and historical context. As one of the key figures in post-World War II American cinema, Altman’s work represents an important bridge between Hollywood and independent cinema, film and television, mainstream narrative and art cinema, the movies and a range of other art forms. This book feature 23 essays from a wide variety of experts in the field covering many of these aspects and dimensions of Altman’s work including his extraordinary deployment of various devices such as the zoom, multi-track sound recording and the long take, his iconoclastic critical reputation, and his representation of space and place. This volume is particularly significant for the ways in which it shifts focus to specific aspects of Altman’s work that have that have been beyond the scope of previous studies including his work in industrial filmmaking and television, collaboration with actors and writers, and his influence on other filmmakers. It draws on a range of approaches to his work beyond the traditional parameters of auteurist film criticism, and represents the first truly extensive and expansive collection devoted to Altman’s work.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988614988005,"sku":"NP9781118288900","price":218.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118288900.jpg?v=1761780981","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-robert-altman-isbn-9781118288900","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}