{"product_id":"robert-altman-interviews-paperback","title":"Robert Altman: Interviews - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Sterritt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert Altman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Altman is one of the most inventive, unpredictable, and hotly debated American filmmakers of the past thirty years. His movies include popular hits (\u003ci\u003eM.A.S.H.\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNashville\u003c\/i\u003e), critical successes (\u003ci\u003eThieves Like Us\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Goodbye\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShort Cuts\u003c\/i\u003e), and outright disasters (\u003ci\u003eBeyond Therapy\u003c\/i\u003e). Through triumph and tribulation alike, Altman has never lost the experimental spirit that brought him into feature filmmaking after twenty years of refining his talent on industrial movies and TV episodes. He also has maintained a gregarious, often garrulous nature, rarely missing an opportunity to discuss his work, life, and ambitions with the many critics and scholars who have plied him with questions throughout his career. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The lively interviews in this book, drawn from a wide variety of sources, range from a colorful talk with Altman as he prepared an early foray into the western genre (\u003ci\u003eMcCabe and Mrs. Miller\u003c\/i\u003e) to a mid-1990s conversation about the challenges of blending jazz and cinema in \u003ci\u003eKansas City\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The interviews probe the many corners of Altman's work, including his epic battles with Hollywood studios and producers, his deep commitment to independent production, his creative views on video and stage-to-screen adaptation (a major facet of his career), and his insistence that he is more an audiovisual artist than a storytelling entertainer. Altman's conversations cast light on his idiosyncratic personality, revealing his taste for intoxicating experiences both on and off the screen and suggesting links between his risk-taking behaviors at the gambling table and the motion-picture set. This collection of interviews is a first-person portrait of a true American maverick whose freewheeling career has waged a decades-long campaign against Hollywood complacency and served as inspiration for new generations of independent screen artists.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollected interviews with the unpredictable and controversial filmmaker of M.A.S.H., Nashville, and Short Cuts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Sterritt\u003c\/b\u003e is a film critic for the \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e and professor of theater and film at Long Island University and Columbia University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eGuiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eeditor of \u003ci\u003eRobert Altman: Interviews \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJean-Luc Godard: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor (with Lucille Rhodes) of\u003ci\u003e Terry Gilliam: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eall published by the University Press of Mississipp\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.98 x 5.88 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261422219485,"sku":"9781578061877","price":64.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/fQhnDZJRMw9781578061877.webp?v=1785076750","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/robert-altman-interviews-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}