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Brewster McCloud

in Interview (1970) vol.1 iss.12 p.8

book

On making a movie : Brewster McCloud : a day-by-day journal of the on-location shooting of the film in Houston / by C. Kirk McClelland ; the shooting script, the original screenplay by Doran William Cannon ; edited by Nancy Hardin

New York: New American Library, 1971.

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Robert Altman : critical essays / edited by Rick Armstrong

Jefferson, NC: McFarland, c2011.

Call No: 81ALT ROB
Author: Armstrong, Rick (ed)
Source: US
Place: Jefferson, NC
Publisher: McFarland
PubDate: c2011
PhysDes: viii, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: FILM; ALTMAN, ROBERT; SHORT CUTS (US, Robert Altman, 1993); MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971); BREWSTER MCCLOUD (US, Robert Altman, 1970); LONG GOODBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973); PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM (US, Herbert Ross, 1972)
Summary: "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 (M*A*S*H, 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 Comapny (2003) and Prairie Home Companion (2006) by noted Altman scholar Robert T. Self. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9780786444144
Contents: -- preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: "diving off the deep end" / Rick Armstrong -- Working with Robert Altman / Michael Murphy -- The hypertext of Short cuts: the jazz in Altman's Carver soup / Krin Gabbard -- "Doing some replacin'": gender, genre and the subversion of dominant ideology in the music scores / Richard R. Ness -- The company's coming: the hero, the survivor, and the victim in McCabe and Mrs. Miller / William Graebner -- Brewster McCloud and the limits of the historical imagination / Marcos Soares -- Brewster McCloud's '60s hangover / Rick Armstrong -- Hard-boiled nebbish: the Jewish Humphrey Bogart in Robert Altman's The long goodbye and Woody Allen's Play it again, Sam / Jeremy Kaye -- A cinema of plenty: Robert Altman and the multi-protagonist film / Maria del Mar Azcona -- Art and performance: consolation at the end of days / Robert T. Self -- combined bibliography -- about the contributors -- index --

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