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Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West
Robert T. Self
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Description for Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West
hardcover. Robert Altman has made a dozen films. But many would agree that his crowning achievement was "McCabe & Mrs Miller". Placing the film within the contexts of Altman's career, and the history of American cinema, this book shows how Altman's idiosyncratic interplay between story and style reframed the American West for a new generation. Num Pages: 216 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Robert Altman has made a dozen films that can be called great in one way or another, but one of them is perfect, and that one is ""McCabe & Mrs. Miller"". - Roger Ebert in ""The Great Movies"". When he died in 2006, director Robert Altman left a rich legacy of films, from ""MASH"", his breakthrough black comedy, through masterpieces like ""Nashville"", ""Short Cuts"", and ""Gosford Park"". But many would agree that his crowning achievement was ""McCabe & Mrs. Miller"", a daring down-beat film about a gambler and a prostitute. Robert Self now provides an illuminating new look at this ... Read more
Robert Altman has made a dozen films that can be called great in one way or another, but one of them is perfect, and that one is ""McCabe & Mrs. Miller"". - Roger Ebert in ""The Great Movies"". When he died in 2006, director Robert Altman left a rich legacy of films, from ""MASH"", his breakthrough black comedy, through masterpieces like ""Nashville"", ""Short Cuts"", and ""Gosford Park"". But many would agree that his crowning achievement was ""McCabe & Mrs. Miller"", a daring down-beat film about a gambler and a prostitute. Robert Self now provides an illuminating new look at this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615513
SKU
V9780700615513
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About Robert T. Self
Robert T. Self is professor emeritus in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University and author of Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality.
Reviews for Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West
Written with intellectual passion, Self's book embraces and illuminates Altman's angry, funny, moving elegy to the Western film. Robert Kolker, author of A Cinema of Loneliness ""Opens a window onto both the West that was and the turbulent years around Altman's neglected masterpiece."" Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains ""A wonderful and compelling work that locates Altman and his ... Read more