Refocus
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2022
280 pages
978-1-4744-7888-5 (ISBN)
Description
Examines an under-analysed period of Robert Altman's career.
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Lisa Dombrowski | Justin Wyatt
Refocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman
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01/2022
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Autumnal Altman-Rethinking his Last Quarter Century
- Part I The Creative Process
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
