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Heather Hendershot Nashville (Paperback) BFI Film Classics. Author: Heather Hendershot. Publisher: BFI Publishing. Series: BFI Film Classics. Title: Nashville. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781839028946. Language: English. Further DetailsTitle: Nashville Condition: New Author: Heather Hendershot Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1839028947 EAN: 9781839028946 ISBN: 9781839028946 Publisher: BFI Publishing Genre: Films & TV Release Date: 10/16/2025 Description: Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975) is simultaneously an intimate film about interpersonal connection and disconnection, and a sprawling, meandering portrait of American societal exhaustion in the wake of Vietnam, Watergate and a spate of political assassinations. Despite its pessimistic, satirical viewpoint, the film suggests a carefully guarded optimism: ‘life may be a one-way street’, but one has no choice but to ‘keep a’ goin’.Heather Hendershot places Nashville in the context of the New Hollywood of the 1970s, which offered a post-censorship anti-hero, the perennial loser. Embracing the new pessimism, Altman’s work fits with those of contemporaries such as Martin Scorsese and Peter Bogdanovich, but it also stands apart for its innovative sound design, improvisatory drive, and loose genre commitments.Through a close reading of the five days over which the film takes place, Hendershot unpacks both its political dynamics and the characters’ interrelationships and motivations. She highlights Nashville ’s criticism of the suffering of its female characters, an engagement that springs from Joan Tewkesbury’s screenplay, Altman’s sensitivity to gendered exploitation (here, if not in all of his pictures), and the role the performers themselves played by improvising and scripting some of their own material. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 190mm Item Length: 135mm Item Width: 10mm Item Weight: 167g Series: BFI Film Classics Release Year: 2025 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
