Robert Altman: America's Rebel Director

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Robert Altman embodied the spirit of America, both in his films and in life. This is the story of his career.

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SOURCES:

Robert Altman, “Albert Mobilio and Robert Altman” : BOMB, No. 68 (Summer, 1999).

Paul Arthur, “How the West Was Spun: McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Genre Revisionism” Cinéaste, Vol. 28, No. 3 (SUMMER 2003).

Vincent Canby, “The Screen: 'McCabe and Mrs. Miller':Miss Christie Portrays Prostitute in West Betty Is a Gambler in Altman's Film” The New York Times (1971).

Adrian Danks, “”It’s OK with me” Introducing Robert Altman” in A Companion to Robert Altman, John Wiley & Sons (2015).

Roger Ebert, “M*A*S*H” Chicago Sun-Times (1970).

Stephen Farber, “Let Us Now Praise—Not Overpraise—Robert Altman” The New York Times (1974).

Margaret Hrezo and William E. Hrezo, “The Politics of the "Open" Self: America in the Cinema of King Vidor and Robert Altman” Studies in Popular Culture, Vol. 32, No. 2 (2010).

Helen Keyssar, Robert Altman’s America, Oxford University Press (1991).

Robert Phillip Kolker, Radical Surfaces: Robert Altman” in A Cinema of Loneliness, Oxford University Press (2000).

Chris Louis Durham, “We Must Be Doing Something Right to Last Two Hundred Years” Wide Screen, Vol 1, Issue 2, (2010).

John Mahoney, “‘M*A*S*H’: THR’s 1970 Review” Hollywood Reporter (1970).

Patrick McGilligan, Robert Altman: Jumping Off The Cliff: A Biography of the Great American Director, St. Martin’s Press (1989).

Daniel O’Brian, Robert Altman: Hollywood survivor, B. T. Batsford (1995).

Rex Reed, “Altman’s Latest Is Just T*R*A*S*H” Daily News (1971).

Roger B. Rollin, “Robert Altman's "Nashville": Popular Film and the American Character” South Atlantic Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 4 (1977).

Robert Altman: Interviews, edited by David Sterritt, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2000).

Robert Self, “Robert Altman and the Theory of Authorship” Cinema Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Autumn, 1985).

Keith Sharon, “On location 50 years ago: Altman's 'Nashville' mixed gun violence, politics and country,” Nashville Tennessean (2024).

Maurice Yacowar, “Actors as Conventions in the Films of Robert Altman” Cinema Journal, Vol 20, No. 1 (1980).

Mitchell Zuckoff, Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (2010).

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