Nashville

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de Heather Hendershot

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Un Film > Nashville

Mots Clés

Robert Altman

Année d'édition

2025 (16 octobre 2025)

Editeur

BFI Publishing

Collection

BFI Film Classics

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 104 pages
13,5 x 19 cm

ISBN

978-1-83902-894-6

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) is simultaneously an intimate film about interpersonal connection and disconnection, and a sprawling, meandering portrait of American societal exhaustion in the wake of Vietnam, Watergate and a spate of political assassinations. Despite its pessimistic, satirical viewpoint, the film suggests a carefully guarded optimism: 'life may be a one-way street', but one has no choice but to 'keep a' goin'.

Heather Hendershot places Nashville in the context of the New Hollywood of the 1970s, which offered a post-censorship anti-hero, the perennial loser. Embracing the new pessimism, Altman's work fits with those of contemporaries such as Martin Scorsese and Peter Bogdanovich, but it also stands apart for its innovative sound design, improvisatory drive, and loose genre commitments.

Through a close reading of the five days over which the film takes place, Hendershot unpacks both its political dynamics and the characters' interrelationships and motivations. She highlights Nashville's criticism of the suffering of its female characters, an engagement that springs from Joan Tewkesbury's screenplay, Altman's sensitivity to gendered exploitation (here, if not in all of his pictures), and the role the performers themselves played by improvising and scripting some of their own material.

À propos de l'auteur :
Heather Hendershot is Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern University, USA. Her books include When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America (2023) and What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest (2011). Her research interests include American film, television, and political culture, focusing on the 1960s-70s. Her essays have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, The Conversation, and Politico.

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