Week Six make-up

Which of Altman’s stylistic techniques does Sawhill associate with "inclusiveness"?

Sawhill says that Altman's audio recording techniques and cinematography techniques were "inclussive" capturing sounds that we usually wouldnt hear, and shooting with multiple cameras to get a lot of coverage and more natural acting.

What does Sawhill mean when he suggests that Altman “was making nonlinear multimedia before the form existed,” and that Nashville “doesn't suffer from the fragmenting effects of stop-and-start, at-home viewing”?

he says that Nashville is just a compiation of a bunch of little scenes taking place in Nashville. and that the non-linear story structure is ok for stopping and starting. because you can understand/appreciate each small segment on its own in some way.


Sawhill was an NYU film student in 1975, thus a product of the film culture that emerged in the late 1960s / early 1970s. Respond to his opinion of post-1975 American film culture (part 3, "A Cinema of Information.") Do you agree or disagree with his assumptions, observations, and conclusions?

It seems like he thinks that the times after Jaws was when the hollywood films lost the Art and became focused on, he says, "Despite the occasional good movie, the news since has all been about technology, effects, gender, race and business. "