Robert Altman's Feminism: the Treatment of Women in His 1970S
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INTRODUCTION METHODOLOGY: “ALTMAN’S FEMINISM” 3 WOMEN (1977) CONCLUSION You can also manually change the color of your background by going to VIEW > SLIDE MASTER. After you finish working on the master be sure to When you are ready to print your poster, go online to In the scholarly study of American film’s New Hollywood era, In review of Altman’s filmmaking during the 1970s, I argue that ESCAPE FROM CLASSICAL NARRATIVE CINEMA Having closely analyzed these few films, I realized the importance of go to VIEW > NORMAL to continue working on your poster. PosterPresentations.com occurring from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, director Robert Altman’s films display a perspective of feminism called “Altman’s analyzing Altman’s work through a feminist framework. The feminist 3 Women is classified as one of Altman’s personal films. These Altman’s work is not discussed as much as his contemporaries, such Feminism.” Except for his commercial hit M*A*S*H (1970), all of psychoanalytic framework could be extended to include other How to add Text Need assistance? Call us at 1.510.649.3001 personal films can also be categorized as art cinema. Scholar Robert as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. While an innovator of Altman’s 1970s can arguably be labeled as “Altman Feminist.” T. Self defines art cinema as a form that “seeks to liberate the theorists, such as Kaja Silverman and Teresa de Lauretis. In addition, The template comes with a number of pre- formatted placeholders for headers and text directorial style, Robert Altman was also unique in the inclusion and spatial and temporal systems from subservience to narrative cause the feminist framework can be expanded to include not just the blocks. You can add more blocks by copying and positive portrayal of women in his films. and effect,” as well as “call[ing] attention not to some story, that psychoanalytic perspective, but also to other feminist frameworks, What is “Altman’s Feminism”? After examining the portrayal, the pasting the existing ones or by adding a text box implicit chronology of realistic events, but to narration, to the such as an intersectional lens. QUICK START roles, and the relationships of women in Altman’s 1970s films, I from the HOME menu. define “Altman’s Feminism” as either the sole or equal focus on the explicit manner of the film’s presentation” (46). MY GOAL female characters whose presence furthers the narrative, are treated Overall, my research provides substantial evidence for Altman to be Zoom in and out After comparing Altman’s films to other films of the New Hollywood Text size period, I believe that Altman’s films have a feminist quality. By with respect and/or sympathy, and are given traits that label them as In other words, art cinema is a deliberate break from the classical considered a feminist director, specifically in his feminism. This As you work on your poster zoom in and out to the level Adjust the size of your text based on how much content you have to analyzing the role and treatment of women in his 1970s film, I a subject rather than a sexual object. narrative mode, which “situates the viewer, voyeuristically safe and research can be expanded to analyze all of Robert Altman’s that is more comfortable to you. present. The default template text offers a good starting point. Follow distanced, as a passive, unself-conscious consumer of a story that filmography. Go to VIEW > ZOOM. submit that Altman’s films should also be analyzed through a the conference requirements. feminist lens. However Altman’s perspective is not in complete The two films I discuss in my thesis that best exemplify “Altman’s seems to tell itself” (Self 45). Choosing such a route for 3 Women, I accord with Second Wave feminist goals. Therefore, I define Feminism” are McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Nashville (1975). argue that, in accord with the film’s eventual forming of a matriarchy, Regardless of viewpoints of what feminism should or should not be, Title, Authors, and Affiliations How to add Tables Altman’s form of feminism as “Altman’s Feminism.” For my thesis, I For McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the inclusion of Mrs. Miller (Julie 3 Women needed to pursue an art cinema route because it breaks Altman’s films maintain that women are equally represented with an To add a table from scratch go to the INSERT menu and Start designing your poster by adding the title, the names of the authors, utilized a feminist psychoanalytic lens, specifically referring to Laura Christie), pictured below, depicts a “new view of the West” as seen from “the ways the unconscious…structure ways of seeing and equally valid perspective. Altman’s female characters are treated as click on TABLE. A drop-down box will help you select rows and the affiliated institutions. You can type or paste text into the Mulvey’s famous essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” to through the female perspective (Self). Further she is much more pleasure in looking” (Mulvey 712). people, typically with respect and trust, as people with both flaws and columns. provided boxes. The template will automatically adjust the size of your argue that 3 Women (1977) is an “Altman Feminist” film. business savvy than McCabe, who, in contrast, is presented as and favorable attributes. Whatever the case, Altman’s films can be You can also copy and a paste a table from Word or another PowerPoint text to fit the title box. You can manually override this feature and dimwitted. considered as a feminist outlet for the New Hollywood era. document. A pasted table may need to be re-formatted by RIGHT-CLICK > change the size of your text. GOAL FOR ANALYSIS OF 3 WOMEN FORMAT SHAPE, TEXT BOX, Margins. 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