CINEMA OF ROBERT ALTMAN

In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise r efashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal experimentation result ed in an uneven body of work: some rank failures and intriguing near-misses, as well as a number of great films that are among the m ost influential works of New American Cinema.