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Altman and After: Multiple Narratives in Film
Peter F. Parshall
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages, 110 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.
In American cinema, films with multiple plots can be traced back to Grand Hotel in 1932, but the form was used only sporadically in subsequent decades. However, filmmakers of the 1970s and 80s, notably Robert Altman and Woody Allen, repeatedly employed complex narratives to weave sprawling stories in their films. Later filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh, and Paul Haggis embraced multiple plotlines, a device that eventually achieved mainstream respectability in such Oscar winners as Traffic and Crash. In the past two decades, more than 200 films utilizing some variation of this format have ... Read more
In American cinema, films with multiple plots can be traced back to Grand Hotel in 1932, but the form was used only sporadically in subsequent decades. However, filmmakers of the 1970s and 80s, notably Robert Altman and Woody Allen, repeatedly employed complex narratives to weave sprawling stories in their films. Later filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh, and Paul Haggis embraced multiple plotlines, a device that eventually achieved mainstream respectability in such Oscar winners as Traffic and Crash. In the past two decades, more than 200 films utilizing some variation of this format have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810885066
SKU
V9780810885066
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About Peter F. Parshall
Peter F. Parshall is Professor Emeritus of Film and Literature at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Reviews for Altman and After: Multiple Narratives in Film
Parshall (emer., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) divides multiple-narrative films into two categories: "network" narratives, in which the film focuses on multiple characters and multiple plot lines, and "draft/database" narratives, in which the text tells the "same" story in different permutations. His examples of the former include Nashville (which is so scattered he actually calls it a "mosaic"), Pulp Fiction, Amores ... Read more