Robert Self

Professor Emeritus

19th- and 20th-century American Literature, Literature and Film, Film Theory and Criticism

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Ph.D. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; 1970

M.A. University of Chicago; 1965

B.A. Florida State University; 1963

19th and 20th Century American Literature

Literature and Film

Film Theory and Criticism

Selected Publications >

“Art and Performance: Consolation at the End of Days,” in Essays on Robert Altman. Ed. Stephen Armstrong. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.
Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller: Reframing the American West. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2007.
“The Modernist Art Cinema of Robert Altman,” Great Directors Critical Database, Senses of Cinema 34 (January-March 2005), http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/altman.html
"Redressing the Law in Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel," Journal of Film and Video, 46 (Summer 1994), 31-43. Reprinted in The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor. Eds. Deborah Jermyn and Sean Redmond. London: Wallflower, 2003.
“Resisting Reality: Acting by Design in Robert Altman's Nashville” in More Than a Method: Modernist and Postmodernist Acting. Ed. Cynthia Baron, Frank Tomasulo and Diane Carson. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 126-154.
Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
"Film and Literature: Parameters of a Discipline," Literature/Film Quarterly, 15 (January 1987), 15-21.
"Robert Altman and the Theory of Authorship," Cinema Journal, 25 (Fall 1985), 3-15.