Robert Altman (1925 - 2006)

American film director and screenwriter

* February 20, 1925 Kansas City, Missouri, USA
 as Robert Bernard Altman
 November 20, 2006 West Hollywood , California, USA



Books on Robert Altman

Mitchell Zuckoff
Robert Altman, The oral biography
New York, 2009

David Thompson (ed.) Altman on Altman David Thompson (ed.)
Altman on Altman
London, New York, 2006

David Sterritt (ed.) Robert Altman David Sterritt (ed.)
Robert Altman, interviews
Jackson, 2000

Daniel O'Brien
Robert Altman, Hollywood survivor
New York, 1995

Helene Keyssar
Robert Altman's America
New York, 1991

Patrick McGilligan
Robert Altman, Jumping off the cliff: a biography of the great American director
New York, 1989

Gerard Plecki
Robert Altman
Boston, 1985

Virginia Wright Wexman and Gretchen Bisplinghoff
Robert Altman, A guide to references and resources
Boston, Mass., 1984

Norman Kagan
American Skeptic, Robert Altman's Genre-Commentary Films
Ann Arbor, MI, 1982

Giancarlo Castelli, Mauro Marchesini Robert Altman Giancarlo Castelli, Mauro Marchesini
Robert Altman
Berlin, 1981

Jean-Loup Bourget
Robert Altman
Paris, 1981

Alan Karp
The films of Robert Altman
Metuchen, N.J., 1981

Robert Phillip Kolker
A Cinema of Loneliness, Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman
New York, 1980

Judith M. Kass
Robert Altman, American Innovator
New York, 1978

Neil Feineman
Persistence of Vision, The Films of Robert Altman
New York, 1976

Books with substantial mentioning of Robert Altman

George Stevens, Jr. (ed.) Conversations at the American Film Institute with the great moviemakers George Stevens, Jr. (ed.)
Conversations at the American Film Institute with the great moviemakers, The next generation
New York, 2012

John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers, Volume I
New York, NY, 2002

Yoram Allon, Del Cullen and Hannah Patterson (eds.) Contemporary North American Film Directors Yoram Allon, Del Cullen and Hannah Patterson (eds.)
Contemporary North American Film Directors, A Wallflower Critical Guide
London and New York, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 2. Directors
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris (editor) The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia Andrew Sarris (editor)
The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia
Detroit - New York - Toronto - London, 1998

Judy Stone Eye on the World Judy Stone
Eye on the World, Conversations with International Filmmakers
Los Angeles, 1997

Ellen Oumano
Film Forum, Thirty-Five Top Filmmakers Discuss Their Craft
New York, 1985

Diane Jacobs
Hollywood Renaissance
New York, 1980

Books with an entry on Robert Altman

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Erster Band. A-C
Berlin, 2001

Articles on Robert Altman

Kent Jones, It Don't Worry Me, in: Filmcomment, nr. 3, 2006 pp. 30-34

Adrian Danks, "It's OK with me", Introducing Robert Altman, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Mark Minett, Sponsoring the Hollywood Renaissance, Reappraising Altman's Industrial Films, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Tony Williams, From Alfred Hitchcock Presents to Tanner on Tanner, The Long Tail of Altman's Television Career, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Nick Hall, Just a Station on His Way? Altman's Transition From Television to Film, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

David Sterritt, Breaking the Rules, Altman, Innovation and the Critics, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Hamish Ford, The Porous Frame, Visual Style in Altman's 1970s Films, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Jay Beck, The Democratic Voice, Altman's Sound Aesthetics in the 1970s, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Stephen Teo, Altman and the Western, or a Hollywood Director's History Lesson of the American West, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Rick Armstrong, Altman/Nixon/Reagan, Honorable Secrets, Historical Analogies and the Nexus of Anger, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Robert T. Self, LA and Paris, The Construction of Social Space in the Films of Altman, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Adrian Danks, "The Man I Love," or Time Regained, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015

Christos Tsiolkas, Altman, The Artist in Middle Age, in: Adrian Danks (ed.), A companion to Robert Altman, Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA, 2015