Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments v
Introduction: "Diving Off the Deep End" Rick Armstrong 1
1 Working with Robert Altman Michael Murphy 17
2 The Hypertext of Short Cuts: The Jazz in Altman' Carver Soup Krin Gabbard 20
3 "Doing Some Replacin'": Gender, Genre and the Subversion of Dominant Ideology in the Music Scores Richard R. Ness 38
4 The Company's Coming: The Hero, the Survivor, and the Victim in McCabe Mrs. Miller William Graebner 59
5 Brewster McCloud and the Limits of the Historical Imagination Marcos Soares 77
6 Brewster McCloud's '60s Hangover Rick Armstrong 100
7 Hard-Boiled Nebbish: The Jewish Humphrey in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Woody Aliens Play It Again, Sam Jeremy Kaye 120
8 A Cinema of Plenty: Robert Altman and the Multi-Protagonist Film Maria Del Mar Azcona 139
9 Art and Performance: Consolation at the End of Days Robert T. Self 156
Combined Bibliography 181
About the Contributors 189
Index 191
