Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: Autumnal Altman—Rethinking his Last Quarter Century 1
7. Part I The Creative Process
8. 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
9. 1 I Yam What I Yam What I Yam: Altman and the Transpositional Poetics of Popeye 13
10. 2 For Real: Tanner ’88, Tanner on Tanner, and the Political Spectacle in the Post-Network Era 30
11. 3 Home-makers: Examining the Altmans’ Place-based Production Practices in Cookie’s Fortune 47
12. 4 A Perfect Couple: The Altman–Rudolph Connection 65
13. 5 Unmade Altman: What the Archive Tells Us 81
14. Part II Industrial Frameworks
15. Figure II.1 Storyboard of the storm sequence in Dr. T & the Women. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Michigan Library. 98
16. 6 Offbeat and Out of Sync: Popeye and the Failure of an Auteur-Driven Franchise 99
17. 7 “Here Comes the Hot-Stepper”: The Hollywood Renaissance, Indie Film, and Robert Altman’s Comeback in the 1990s 117
18. 8 “I Fiddle on the Corner Where They Throw the Coins”: Altman’s Brand in Europe 137
19. Part III New Perspectives on Altman
20. 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
21. 9 Fantasies and Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean 159
22. 10 Countering Robert Altman’s Sexual Outlaws: Visibility, Representation, and Questionable Social Progress 172
23. 11 The Affection of Death 190
24. Part IV Collaborator Interviews
25. 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
26. 12 Allan F. Nicholls 197
27. 13 Alan Rudolph 202
28. 14 Ira Deutchman 209
29. 15 Matthew Seig 218
30. 16 Wren Arthur 225
31. 17 Joshua Astrachan 229
32. 18 Anne Rapp 236
33. 19 Andrew Dunn 243
34. 20 Mitchell Zuckoff 252
35. Index 259