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Across the River and Into the Trees 123
African-American
2,
31,
34,
73,
87,
99,
112–13,
142,
165,
171,
178,
181
Altman, Bernard Clement (‘B.C.’)
2,
90
Altman, Helen (née Matthews)
90
American anti-intellectualism
96
American electoral politics
96
American literary Naturalism
6,
10n.3
A Shortage of Engineers (novel)
192
as they are actually playing 172
A Wedding 3,
6,
10,
83–8,
89–91,
93–6,
130n.15,
132,
162,
164,
180,
183,
187,
197
Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The 111
Biarritz (screenplay)
119
box office
14,
16,
28,
33,
43,
45,
52,
57,
69,
82,
93,
95,
100,
104,
141,
148,
155,
164,
177,
181,
192–3,
196
Breakfast of Champions (novel)
19
‘Brewster McCloud’s Flying Machine’ (screenplay)
30
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson 10,
19,
62–9,
83,
88n.6,
98
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 40,
61
Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The 128–9
Caine Mutiny, The (novel)
120
Cannon, Doran William ‘Billy’
30–1
capitalism
4,
7,
30,
37,
78,
86,
92,
117,
170; American rentier-capitalist
31,
39,
45; consumer-capitalism
83,
161; corporate
148; hucksterism
77; ideology
9; modernity
10n.4,
77,
187; monopoly-style
71n.23; patriarchal
6,
40,
109,
192
class: antagonism
188; barrier
191; British class
185,
187–8; conflict
84; consciousness
86; cross-class
192; denial
95; identity
113; imbalances
184; inter-class
95,
152; middle-class
2,
34,
70n.3,
101,
112,
135,
152; oppressed
188; privilege
28; professional-managerial
78,
117; resentment
54; selfish
87; slave
89; solidarity
192; stratification
7; upper-class
112–13,
125,
185; upper-middleclass
156; working-class
34,
81,
109,
112,
124–5,
135,
149,
152,
156
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (play)
10,
106
Commonwealth United
14,
16
‘Dark Horse, The’ (tv episode)
132
Duvall, Shelley
19,
22n.7,
32,
52,
55,
67,
75,
94,
100,
199n.4
ego/egotism/superego 13,
21,
38,
49,
52,
65,
67–8,
70n.3,
79,
84,
109,
139,
143,
180
Entertainment Tonight 160–1
Gemeinschaft
7–8,
44,
77,
84–5,
94,
101–2,
172,
179,
187,
193,
198; African-American
181; Altmanesque Gemeinschaft
35; Old World
87
genre: anti-genre
25–6,
31,
45–6,
51,
54,
60,
72n.32,
95; anti-war drama
111; cliché of the
32; film
5,
10,
25–8,
34,
70n.4; formulaic genre
89; gangster
48,
59,
170; inter-class romance
95; revisionist romantic comedy
96; revisionist western
18,
34,
62,
69; parody
47,
69,
92,
144,
152,
180; romantic comedy
93–6,
182; science fiction
91,
96; sex as an anti-genre
26; thriller
17,
22n.3,
32,
82,
90,
119,
146,
172–4,
176–7; war films
26,
113; western
18,
20,
34,–
40,
42,
45,
62–4,
66,
68–9,
72n.42,
75,
120,
122,
132,
142,
197
Gesellschaft
7–8,
10,
25,
30,
43,
76,
79,
82–3,
91,
101–2,
104,
114,
125–6,
142,
157,
163; America
78,
87,
172; dehumanisation
25; Hobbesian Gesellschaft
93; military
113; modernity
123
‘Girlfriend Factor, The’ (tv episode)
133
Guardian, The (newspaper)
134,
196
Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged (novel)
84
Hayes, Clyde (Al Hayes)
173–4
heroism
28,
29,
31,
36,
42,
54,
55,
70n.5,
103,
117,
171,
195; anti-hero
6,
25,
43,
63; cop-hero
83; cult-hero
110; heroic hyper-individualism
6; individual
4,
55; macho
20; male hero
38,
59,
184; martyrdom
54; self-concept
8; tragic
65; western hero
64,
66
Himmel über Berlin
, Der
(Wings of Desire)
197
Hollywood: Altman’s exile from
10,
118; Altman’s rejection of
1; classicist norms
1,
5; corporatism
83; genre conventions
1,
24,
51; heroic self-concept
8; Hollywood Renaissance
24,
82,
89,
141; Hollywood Ten
69n.1; as a metaphor
148
‘Hooray for Hollywood’ (song)
47,
51
Hornberger, Heister Richard ‘Dick’, M.D.
24
Ieri, oggi, domain (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow) 163
It Happened One Night 95,
162
James Dean Story, The 4,
110
Kolker, Robert
7,
10n.4,
29,
44,
47,
51,
55,
65,
71n.22,
72n.n.33,
37,
78,
84,
87,
93,
98,
107,
110
Lake Wobegon Days (novel)
196
Lasch, Christopher
84,
157
Laurentiis, Dino de
19,
62
liberal Democrat
8,
79,
96
Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh, The (documentary)
134
Long Goodbye, The (novel)
45
Los Angeles
17,
19,
24,
28,
46,
59,
94,
99,
101,
105n.3,
106,
115,
140–1,
150–1,
155–6,
158n.6,
177,
199; postmodern landscape
47
Los Angeles Actors’ Theater (aka Los Angeles Theater Center)
106,
115
Majors, Glendora (‘Glen’)
2
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 41
masculinity: agency
184; Alpha male
146; degraded
115; desire
152; guilty male
3; hero
38,
171,
184; heterosexual
157; ideology
27; machismo
12; male-centred
19; male-dominated
77; male drama
111; male-oriented
12,
34; manhood
26,
42,
59; masculinity-affirming potential
26,
27; mid-century style
49; misogynistic males
80; psychosexual identity
111; as a refusal
3; remasculinising
27
M*A*S*H 3,
10,
12,
17,
24–9,
29,
34,
36,
45,
53,
75,
141,
147–8,
151,
157,
192,
196
MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (novel)
24
mass celebrity culture
77
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 3,
10,
17,
34–45,
46,
51,
52–3,
62,
69,
72n.34,
93,
102,
105n.5,
120,
135,
169
McGilligan, Patrick
2–3,
7,
14,
17,
30–1,
36,
44–5,
52–3,
58,
61,
73,
83,
85,
88,
93,
100–1,
123,
126
Miles, Richard (aka Peter)
14
Model’s Handbook, The 159
myth/mythology
63,
65–6,
69,
95,
107,
135; bourgeois
6,
65; crime
55; deconstruct the
9; demythification
135; Greek
29–30,
197; monomyth
70n.5; myth-making
65; old folk
54; paradigms
162; romantic
39,
40,
57,
134
narrative
1,
5–6,
29,
47–9,
51,
54,
57,
61,
78,
93,
121,
143,
147,
155,
185,
194,
195; American
76; audience-tested
144; cinematic
6,
14,
33; classical
21; of Desire
199n.3; Hollywood
136; ideological
83; no narrative
164; romance
95; sub-narrative
78
Nashville 6,
10,
62,
73–83,
85,
87–8,
88n.n.3,
4,
94,
96,
102,
105n.8,
118,
123,
131,
142,
151,
160–2,
164,
193,
197
New York
4,
30,
41,
63,
66,
100,
106,
107,
111,
115,
118–19,
140,
149,
177,
185,
192–93,
197
Night of the Hunter, The 174
nihilistic romanticism
54
Parker, Charlie (‘Bird’)
166
patriotism
25,
102,
111; anthems
197; old-fashioned
31; patriotic propaganda
28
Rake’s Progress, The 127–8
règle du jeu, La (The Rules of the Game) 188
Secret Honor: The Last Testament of Richard M. Nixon (play)
115
self-: assured
20,
97,
142,
183; aware
6,
80,
134; centred
62,
102,
157; congratulation
30,
40; conscious
8,
156,–7,
164,
187; deconstructive
27,
147; defence
55,
177; destructive
61,
93,
126; discipline
3,
194; esteem
38,
117; exile
43,
118; expressive
59,
145; illumination
109; image
2,
18,
65,
79; interest
42,
44,
82–3; mythologising
64; parody
92; powered
29,
33; reflexive
28,
97,
102,
110,
138,
143,
147,
158n.5; respect
80,
187; sacrifice
109; transformation
31,
180
Short Cuts: Selected Stories (book)
150
Songs of Leonard Cohen (album)
36
Sugarland Express, The 55,
58
That Cold Day in the Park (novel)
14
Thieves Like Us (novel)
52
Third and Oak: The Laundromat 118
Thompson, David
13,
17,
29,
45–7,
52–3,
58,
61,
74–5,
111,
119,
126,
129n.2,
135,
141,
144,
148,
160–1,
165–6,
171–2,
174–5,
178,
182–6,
188,
191,
193–4
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 61
To Kill a Mockingbird 173,
181
Tönnies, Ferdinand
7,
163
TV episodes directed by Robert Altman (
Bonanza, Bus Stop, Combat, Millionaire, The, Troubleshooters, U.S. Marshal, Whirlybirds) 4 20th Century Fox
19,
24,
69n.1,
85,
90,
93,
96,
99,
111
Vietnam War
25,
29,
62–3,
65,
81,
110–11,
112,
115,
117,
129n.7; allegory
151; anti-Vietnam War
23,
62; post-Vietnam
44,
65,
89,
110
Washington Post, The (newspaper)
155,
157,
162
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (short stories)
149
William Morris Agency 140
Wizard of Oz, The 31,
184