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Record Nr.

UNINA9910749001403321

Autore

Flinn Caryl

Titolo

Alan Rudolph's "Trouble in mind" : tampering with myths / / Carly Flinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2023

©2022

ISBN

9780472903788

0472903780

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages)

Collana

Out of the Archives

Classificazione

PER000000PER004030PER004060

Disciplina

791.43/72

Soggetti

Film noir

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from eBook information screen..

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147)

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Plot: Borrowed Pasts and Unclear Futures -- Chapter 3. Trouble in Mind in Independent Cinema: Smooth Sailing in a Troubled Term -- Chapter 4. Neo-noir and Anti-noir: Playing with Tropes -- Chapter 5. The Style of Dreams: Image and Music -- Chapter 6. The 1980s: Broken Politics, Surfaces, and Dreams -- Chapter 7. Marketing and Reception -- Chapter 8. Archives, Afterlives, and Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite a career spanning over forty years, filmmaker Alan Rudolph has flown largely under the radar of independent film scholars and enthusiasts, often remembered as Robert Altman's prote̹ge̹. Through a reading of his 1985 film Trouble in Mind, Caryl Flinn demonstrates that Rudolph is long overdue for critical re-evaluation. Exploring Trouble in Mind's influence on indie filmmaking, Rudolph's dream-like style, and the external political influences of the Reagan era, Flinn effectively conveys the originality of Rudolph's work through this multifaceted film. Utilizing archival materials and interviews with Rudolph himself and his collaborators, Flinn argues for this career-defining film's relevance to American independent cinema and the decade of the 1980s. Amply illustrated with frame enlargements and set photographs, this book uncovers new production stories and reception contexts of a film that Flinn argues deserves a place in the



limelight..