Gosford Park, the ”Altmanesque” and Narrative Democracy’ James Dalrymple
’Gosford Park, the ”Altmanesque” and Narrative Democracy’ James Dalrymple To cite this version: James Dalrymple. ’Gosford Park, the ”Altmanesque” and Narrative Democracy’. ”Narrative Democ- racy in 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature and Visual Arts”, SEAC 2018 conference, Nov 2018, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. hal-01911889 HAL Id: hal-01911889 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01911889 Submitted on 25 Jan 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. James Dalrymple (ILCEA4) – Gosford Park, the ‘Altmanesque’ and democracy Gosford Park, the ‘Altmanesque’ and democracy James Dalrymple, Institut des langues et cultures d'europe, amérique, afrique, asie et australie (ILCEA4), Université Grenoble-Alpes, France. Often working with large casts of actors—and many featuring on screen simultaneously, with dialogues frequently overlapping one another and given little hierarchy in the sound design—US director Robert Altman (1925–2006) came to be associated with a signature style despite working in a range of genres, mostly in order to subvert their conventions. The adjective ‘Altmanesque’ has come to apply to this aesthetic, one in which much is also left to chance, with actors given space to improvise and create their own characters within a larger tableau or ‘mural’ (del Mar Azcona 142).
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