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Author:   Rick Armstrong
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780786444144

ISBN 10:   0786444142
Pages:   205
Publication Date:   04 March 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments      Introduction: “Diving Off the Deep End”      RICK ARMSTRONG 1. Working with Robert Altman      MICHAEL MURPHY 2. The Hypertext of Short Cuts: The Jazz in Altman’s Carver Soup      KRIN GABBARD 3. “Doing Some Replacin’”: Gender, Genre and the Subversion of Dominant Ideology in the Music Scores      RICHARD R. NESS 4. The Company’s Coming: The Hero, the Survivor, and the Victim in McCabe and Mrs. Miller      WILLIAM GRAEBNER 5. Brewster McCloud and the Limits of the Historical Imagination      MARCOS SOARES 6. Brewster McCloud’s ’60s Hangover      RICK ARMSTRONG 7. Hard- Boiled Nebbish: The Jewish Humphrey Bogart in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam      JEREMY KAYE 8. A Cinema of Plenty: Robert Altman and the Multi- Protagonist Film      MARIA DEL MAR AZCONA 9. Art and Performance: Consolation at the End of Days      ROBERT T. SELF Combined Bibliography      About the Contributors      Index     

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Author Information

Rick Armstrong is assistant professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York. His written work has appeared in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism.

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