Robert Altman

Known as an iconoclast and maverick, film director Robert Altman has consistently pushed against the boundaries of genre. From refashioning film noir in The Long Goodbye , the western in McCabe & Mrs. Miller , the psychological drama in Images , science fiction in Quintet , and the romantic comedy in A Perfect Couple , he has always tested the limits of what film can and should do. In this book, Frank Caso examines the development of Altman’s artistic method from his earliest days in industr