02908nam 22005055 450 991015025720332120200723103303.00-231-85086-710.7312/niem17626(CKB)3710000000628065(EBL)4441488(MiAaPQ)EBC4441488(DE-B1597)468907(OCoLC)962752036(DE-B1597)9780231850865(EXLCZ)99371000000062806520200723h20162016 fg engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Cinema of Robert Altman Hollywood Maverick /Robert NiemiNew York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (241 p.)Directors' CutsDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-17626-0 0-231-17627-9 Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Three Dream Films: Explorations of Female Identity -- Chapter Two. Experiments in Genre Revision -- Chapter Three. Large Canvases -- Chapter Four. Falling from Grace -- Chapter Five. In the Wilderness -- Chapter Six. Return to Form -- Chapter Seven. Final Phase: More Large Canvases and Minor Works -- Coda -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal experimentation resulted in an uneven body of work: some rank failures and intriguing near-misses, as well as a number of great films that are among the most influential works of New American Cinema. While Altman always professed to have nothing authoritative to say about the state of contemporary society, this volume surveys all of his major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant satirist and social critic of postmodern America, depicted as a lonely wasteland of fraudulent spectacle, exploitative social relations, and unfulfilled solitaries in search of elusive community.Directors' cuts.PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & ProductionbisacshPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production.791.430233092AP 44983rvkNiemi Robert, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1222843DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910150257203321The Cinema of Robert Altman2836795UNINA