Film Director (20-Feb-1925 — 20-Nov-2006)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Diane Jacobs. Hollywood Renaissance: Altman, Cassavetes, Coppola, Mazursky, Scorsese and Others. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co.. 1977. 192pp.

Alan Karp. The Films of Robert Altman. Scarecrow Press. 1981.

Judith M. Kass. Robert Altman: American Innovator. New York: Popular Library. 1978.

Helene Keyssar. Robert Altman's America. New York: Oxford University Press. 1991. 372pp.

Robert Kolker. A Cinema of Loneliness. Oxford University Press. 2000. 484pp. Covering Penn, Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, and Altman.

Patrick McGilligan. Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. 1989. 676pp.

Daniel O'Brien. Robert Altman: Hollywood Survivor. Continuum. 1995. 140pp.

Gerard Plecki. Robert Altman. Boston, MA: Twayne. 1985. 159pp.

Robert T. Self. Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality. University of Minnesota Press. 2002. 344pp.

David Sterritt (editor). Robert Altman: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. 2000. 225pp.

Jan Stuart. The Nashville Chronicles: The Making of Robert Altman's Masterpiece. Simon & Schuster. 2000. 366pp.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

7. New York Times Obituary [link]

8. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.30)

9. Random House Dictionary of World Biography (p.13)

10. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.17)

11. Who's Who in America 2000 (p.84)

12. Penguin Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century (p.214)

13. Cassell Companion to Cinema (p.14)

14. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.12)

15. Chambers Film and TV Handbook (p.6)

16. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.12)

17. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.10)

18. Celebrity Register 4th Issue (p.8)

19. Celebrity Register 5th Issue (p.7)

20. Contemporary North American Directors (pp.7-10)

21. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood (p.7)

22. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (pp.13-14)

23. The Hollywood.com Guide to Film Directors (pp.18-23)

24. The St. James Encyclopedia of Film Directors (pp.11-18)

25. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.14)

26. The International Who's Who 2001 (p.35)

27. Britannica Almanac 2006 (p.52)

28. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.1, p.63)

29. Legends in Their Own Time (p.7)

30. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.336)

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