Gayle Sherwood Magee

Robert Altman's Soundtracks (eBook, ePUB)

Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion

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Produktbeschreibung

American director Robert Altman (1925-2006) first came to national attention with the surprise blockbuster M*A*S*H (1970), and he directed more than thirty feature films in the subsequent decades. Critics and scholars have noted that music is central to Altman's films, and in addition to his feature films, Altman worked in theater, opera, and the emerging field of cable television. His treatment of sound is a hallmark of his films, alongside overlapping dialogue, improvisation, and large ensemble casts. Several of his best-known films integrate musical performances into the central plot, including Nashville (1975), Popeye (1980), Short Cuts (1993), Kansas City (1996), The Company (2003) and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), his final film. Even such non-musicals as McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) have been described as, in fellow director and prot?g? Paul Thomas Anderson's evocative phrase, as "musicals without people singing." Robert Altman's Soundtracks considers Altman's celebrated, innovative uses of music and sound in several of his most acclaimed and lesser-known works. In so doing, these case studies serve as a window not only into Altman's considerable and varied output, but also the changing film industry over nearly four decades, from the heyday of the New Hollywood in the late 1960s through the "Indiewood" boom of the 1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. As its frame, the book considers the continuing attractions of auteurism inside and outside of scholarly discourse, by considering Altman's career in terms of the director's own self-promotion as a visionary and artist; the film industry's promotion of Altman the auteur; the emphasis on Altman's individual style, including his use of music, by the director, critics, scholars, and within the industry; and the processes, tensions, and boundaries of collaboration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190205331
• Artikelnr.: 41833033

Autorenporträt

Gayle Sherwood Magee is Associate Professor of Musicology at the School of Music, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Listening to Robert Altman
Chapter 1: The Sweet Music of Kansas City
Chapter 2: New Hollywood Song Tracks
Chapter 3: Nostalgia Trips
Chapter 4: A New Hollywood Musical
Chapter 5: Battling the Empire
Chapter 6: The Wilderness
Chapter 7: Indiewood and Improvisation
Chapter 8: The Perfect Servant
Chapter 9: Midwestern Musicals
Conclusion: Altman Today
Index