Robert Altman's Soundtracks
Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 November 2014
- ISBN 9780199915965
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 145x221x48 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 92 film stills; 8 music examples 0
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Short description:
Robert Altman's Soundtracks offers a compelling new look at this celebrated director's films through his innovative uses of music and sound. As author Gayle Sherwood-Magee illustrates, Altman's considerable and varied output speaks to the changing film industry over decades from Nashville (1975) to A Prairie Home Companion (2006).
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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 protégé 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 will consider 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.
Table of Contents:
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
