Join Mavericks and Makers Collection Curator Phil Hallman for a photographic journey through Robert Altman’s films. MAS*H propelled Altman to the top of noted film directors, and over the next four decades he worked with many leading actors, releasing nearly 40 films that poked, prodded, and punched at U.S. culture, particularly satirizing its institutions.

Altman was noted for subverting genres and using overlapping dialogue. His method of storytelling was so unique that the Oxford English Dictionary included the term “Altmanesque" in their 2018 edition.

This presentation will draw from the Special Collections Research Center’s Robert Altman collection — a massive array of some 700 boxes containing documents, scripts, photos, props, costumes, and paraphernalia related to the enormously influential career of a cinematic titan. This is one in a series of U-M Library's Special Collections After Hours events.

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