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7 “Here Comes the Hot-Stepper”: The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s
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Yannis Tzioumakis
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Notes on Contributors ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction: Autumnal Altman—Rethinking his Last Quarter Century 1
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Part I The Creative Process
- Figure I.1 Robert Altman on the set of Short Cuts. Photo by Joyce Rudolph. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library 12
- 1 I Yam What I Yam What I Yam: Altman and the Transpositional Poetics of Popeye 13
- 2 For Real: Tanner ’88, Tanner on Tanner, and the Political Spectacle in the Post-Network Era 30
- 3 Home-makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune 47
- 4 A Perfect Couple: The Altman–Rudolph Connection 65
- 5 Unmade Altman: What the Archive Tells Us 81
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Part II Industrial Frameworks
- Figure II.1 Storyboard of the storm sequence in Dr. T & the Women. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library. 98
- 6 Offbeat and Out of Sync: Popeye and the Failure of an Auteur-Driven Franchise 99
- 7 “Here Comes the Hot-Stepper”: The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s 117
- 8 “I Fiddle on the Corner Where They Throw the Coins”: Altman’s Brand in Europe 137
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Part III New Perspectives on Altman
- Figure III.1 Robert Altman on the set of Dr. T & the Women. Photo by Zade Rosenthal. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library 158
- 9 Fantasies and Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 159
- 10 Countering Robert Altman’s Sexual Outlaws: Visibility, Representation, and Questionable Social Progress 172
- 11 The Affection of Death 190
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Part IV Collaborator Interviews
- Figure IV.1 Stephen Rea in Prêt-à-Porter as drawn by fashion illustrator Gladys Perint Palmer. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library 196
- 12 Allan F. Nicholls 197
- 13 Alan Rudolph 202
- 14 Ira Deutchman 209
- 15 Matthew Seig 218
- 16 Wren Arthur 225
- 17 Joshua Astrachan 229
- 18 Anne Rapp 236
- 19 Andrew Dunn 243
- 20 Mitchell Zuckoff 252
- Index 259
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Notes on Contributors ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction: Autumnal Altman—Rethinking his Last Quarter Century 1
-
Part I The Creative Process
- Figure I.1 Robert Altman on the set of Short Cuts. Photo by Joyce Rudolph. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library 12
- 1 I Yam What I Yam What I Yam: Altman and the Transpositional Poetics of Popeye 13
- 2 For Real: Tanner ’88, Tanner on Tanner, and the Political Spectacle in the Post-Network Era 30
- 3 Home-makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune 47
- 4 A Perfect Couple: The Altman–Rudolph Connection 65
- 5 Unmade Altman: What the Archive Tells Us 81
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Part II Industrial Frameworks
- Figure II.1 Storyboard of the storm sequence in Dr. T & the Women. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library. 98
- 6 Offbeat and Out of Sync: Popeye and the Failure of an Auteur-Driven Franchise 99
- 7 “Here Comes the Hot-Stepper”: The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s 117
- 8 “I Fiddle on the Corner Where They Throw the Coins”: Altman’s Brand in Europe 137
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Part III New Perspectives on Altman
- Figure III.1 Robert Altman on the set of Dr. T & the Women. Photo by Zade Rosenthal. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library 158
- 9 Fantasies and Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 159
- 10 Countering Robert Altman’s Sexual Outlaws: Visibility, Representation, and Questionable Social Progress 172
- 11 The Affection of Death 190
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Part IV Collaborator Interviews
- Figure IV.1 Stephen Rea in Prêt-à-Porter as drawn by fashion illustrator Gladys Perint Palmer. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library 196
- 12 Allan F. Nicholls 197
- 13 Alan Rudolph 202
- 14 Ira Deutchman 209
- 15 Matthew Seig 218
- 16 Wren Arthur 225
- 17 Joshua Astrachan 229
- 18 Anne Rapp 236
- 19 Andrew Dunn 243
- 20 Mitchell Zuckoff 252
- Index 259