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The cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood maverick

By Altman , Robert , Robert; Niemi

Book information

Publisher
Wallflower Press; Columbia University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780231176262, 9780231176279, 9780231850865, 0231176260, 0231850867
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6459566 bytes)
Series
Directors' cuts
Pages
1 recurso en línea (x, 230 páginas: ilustracione
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:40

Description

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.

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