American Skeptic: Robert Altman's Genre-commentary Films

Altman's anti-genre Altman's film anti-genre Big Sleep Bonnie and Clyde Bowie-Carradine Boy-Burns Brewster McCloud Brewster-Cort California Split camera Carradine Cathryn Cathryn-York character Charlie-Gould Chicamaw-Shuck Chiz-Duval Cincinnati Kid comic Countdown counterpart Darling Clementine death Denny-Segal detective dream Duvall Elliott Gould film genre film's filmmaking Ford's Frances-Dennis frontier genre commentary genre convention genre films genre motif genre theme genre's girl gonna Gould Grapes of Wrath Hamilton-Gibson Hawkeye"-Sutherland hero Hollywood Hoolihan-Kellerman Hustler Images Joad John Keechie-Duvall killed Lee-Caan Lennox-Bouton Liberty Valance Long Goodbye Louise-Kellerman lyrics and music madness Major Burns-Duval Marlowe Marlowe-Gould McCabe McCabe-Beatty Michael Miller Miller-Christie mocking mood movie murder Nashville nurse obsessed outlaw outlaw/outcast protagonist Psycho radio Rene Auberjonois reversal Richard Baskin Robert Altman Ronee Blakley Sarris scene science fiction sequence sexual Shelley Duvall shot show business shown Sontag Star stylized suggests suicide Suzanne-Duval Vertigo viewer visual western wife Wizard of Oz woman York