Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling offers a fresh examination of Altman's work during the early 1970s Hollywood Renaissance, analyzing films like MAS*H and Nashville. The book reframes Altman as a pragmatic innovator whose storytelling techniques are rooted in, rather than rejected by, classical Hollywood traditions. Through an empirical, formalist approach, it sheds new light on his distinctive style and its broader implications for cinematic authorship.