Robert Altman: Critical Essays
- ISBN-10
- 078648604X
- ISBN-13
- 9780786486045
- Series
- Robert Altman
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 205
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-10
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Author
- Rick Armstrong
Description
The life and work of motion picture director Robert Altman (1925–2006) are interpreted from a variety of perspectives in this collection of essays. Actors, historians, film scholars, and cultural theorists reflect on Altman and his five-decade career and discuss the significance of music, history and genre in his films. Two actors who have appeared in some of the filmmaker’s most important works are prominently represented, with a statement from Elliot Gould (MASH, The Long Goodbye, California Split) and an essay by Michael Murphy (McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, Tanner ’88). The collection ends with an essay on the importance of death in the director’s final productions The Company (2003) and Prairie Home Companion (2006) by noted Altman scholar Robert T. Self.
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