Nora goes off script / Annabel Monaghan. by Monaghan, Annabel

Primer / Aaron Smith. by Smith, Aaron, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…X X XThe River Phoenix Collection; X; When You Told Me Your Father Was Dying; Still Life with Antidepressants; Jennifer Lawrence; Still Life with a Hundred Crucifixions; Homosexuality; Evangelical; Lessons; David Beckham Is People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive; Primer for Men; Each Light a Knife; The Bar Closes But You Don't Want to Go Home; Driving North on Interstate 99 the Poet Considers His Life at Forty; X X X; Notes; Acknowledgments.…”
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A companion to Robert Altman / edited by Adrian Danks.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Glamour of Failure -- References -- 17 Nashville -- The Evolution of the Second City Style -- Second City Improvisation and Altman's Cinema -- Altman, Hollywood and Cultural Change: The Romantic Couple in Crisis -- Nashville's Production Process: Community and Authorship -- Altman's Theater Games -- Character, Performance Style and Modern Identity: From Couples to Community -- References -- 18 Altman -- 19 Lawful Lawyer, Vigilante Father -- Introduction: Reasoning Revenge -- The Gingerbread Man: Morality and the Role of the Law -- Altman's Interrogation of Value Systems -- Rick Magruder and the Limitations of the Legal System -- Clinton-Era Noir and the Dangers of Sex -- The Paterfamilias as Extra-Legal Protector -- Dixon Doss: The Monstrous Father -- Conclusion -- References -- Part Five: Zoom out: After "Altman" -- 20 Staging the "Rebel's Return" -- Renaissance of a (New) Hollywood Rebel: Altman's Authorial Return -- Indulging in Incomplete Sentences: Popular History, Textual Selectivity and The Player's Opening Shot -- Having Your Art and Eating it Too: Marketing, Promotion and Competing Authorizing Discourses -- Art, Now More Than Ever: Remembering Altman Through Short Cuts -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 21 The End of the Hollywood Hero -- The Single Hero and Multi-Protagonist Films -- Altman and Narrative Form -- "The Sexiest Man Alive": Richard Gere's Star Persona -- The Male Hero vs. the Female Ensemble -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 22 The Long Reach of Short Cuts -- Short Cuts -- Magnolia -- Crash -- Powder Blue.…”
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A companion to Robert Altman / edited by Adrian Danks.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Glamour of Failure -- References -- 17 Nashville -- The Evolution of the Second City Style -- Second City Improvisation and Altman's Cinema -- Altman, Hollywood and Cultural Change: The Romantic Couple in Crisis -- Nashville's Production Process: Community and Authorship -- Altman's Theater Games -- Character, Performance Style and Modern Identity: From Couples to Community -- References -- 18 Altman -- 19 Lawful Lawyer, Vigilante Father -- Introduction: Reasoning Revenge -- The Gingerbread Man: Morality and the Role of the Law -- Altman's Interrogation of Value Systems -- Rick Magruder and the Limitations of the Legal System -- Clinton-Era Noir and the Dangers of Sex -- The Paterfamilias as Extra-Legal Protector -- Dixon Doss: The Monstrous Father -- Conclusion -- References -- Part Five: Zoom out: After "Altman" -- 20 Staging the "Rebel's Return" -- Renaissance of a (New) Hollywood Rebel: Altman's Authorial Return -- Indulging in Incomplete Sentences: Popular History, Textual Selectivity and The Player's Opening Shot -- Having Your Art and Eating it Too: Marketing, Promotion and Competing Authorizing Discourses -- Art, Now More Than Ever: Remembering Altman Through Short Cuts -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 21 The End of the Hollywood Hero -- The Single Hero and Multi-Protagonist Films -- Altman and Narrative Form -- "The Sexiest Man Alive": Richard Gere's Star Persona -- The Male Hero vs. the Female Ensemble -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 22 The Long Reach of Short Cuts -- Short Cuts -- Magnolia -- Crash -- Powder Blue.…”
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