Danks Adrian - A Companion to Robert Altman

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 04
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 06
7. Chapter 08
8. Chapter 09
9. Chapter 10
10. Chapter 11
11. Chapter 12
12. Chapter 13
13. Chapter 14
14. Chapter 15
15. Chapter 16
16. Chapter 17
17. Chapter 18
18. Chapter 19
19. Chapter 21
20. Chapter 22
21. Chapter 23

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Robert Altman / edited by Adrian Danks.
pagescm
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-28890-0 (cloth)
1.Altman, Robert, 1925-2006Criticism and interpretation.I.Danks, Adrian, editor.
PN1998.3.A48C66 2015
791.430233092dc23

2014049396

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Robert Altman, Jrme de Perlinghi/Corbis

Rick Armstrong is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. He is the editor of and contributor to Robert Altman: Critical Essays (2011) and New Criticism: Formalist Literary Theory in America (2013). He is a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism (2011).

Mara del Mar Azcona teaches film studies at the University of Zaragoza. She is the author of The Multi-Protagonist Film (2010) and the co-author, with Celestino Deleyto, of Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu (2010). Recent publications include The Boy Next Door: Transnational Identity in Gran Torino (in Transnational Cinemas, 2013) and We Are All Uxbal: Narrative Complexity in the Urban Borderlands in Biutiful (in Journal of Film and Video, forthcoming).

Jay Beck is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton College. He has edited two book collections Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound (2008) with Tony Grajeda and Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre (2008) with Vicente Rodrguez Ortega and has published extensively on cinema sound. In addition to co-founding the Sound Studies Special Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, he is American co-editor of the journal Music, Sound and the Moving Image. His current book project is Designing Sound: Technology and Sound Aesthetics in 70s American Cinema.

Adrian Danks is Director of Higher Degree Research in the School of Media and Communication, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (University). He is also co-curator of the Melbourne Cinmathque and co-editor of Senses of Cinema. He has published widely on various subjects including found footage cinema, auteurism, cinephilia, rear-projection, the film-on-film, Iranian cinema, film restoration and home movies in a range of books and journals. He is currently writing several books including a monograph devoted to the history and practice of home moviemaking in Australia (Songs of Air) and a volume examining international feature film production in Australia during the period 194575 (Australian International Pictures