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Book SynopsisRobert Altman has made a dozen films. But many would agree that his crowning achievement was ""McCabe & Mrs Miller"". Placing the film within the contexts of Altman's career, and the history of American cinema, this book shows how Altman's idiosyncratic interplay between story and style reframed the American West for a new generation.
Trade ReviewWritten with intellectual passion, Self's book embraces and illuminates Altman's angry, funny, moving elegy to the Western film. Robert Kolker, author of A Cinema of Loneliness ""Opens a window onto both the West that was and the turbulent years around Altman's neglected masterpiece."" Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains ""A wonderful and compelling work that locates Altman and his movie amidst changes in the genre of the Western, American society, and historical interpretations of the American West."" Richard White, author of ""It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own"": A New History of the American West
