Tag Archives: Robert Altman Director

MIA: infrastructure under the radar

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Dave

….If anyone sees a missing building, please report it to the administration immediately.” Sound like a camp-wide megaphone public address from Robert Altman’s MASH movie of 1970. Irony and absurdity combined in that strange and often contradictory relationship between military … Continue reading →

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the fifties: happy days?

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Dave

The 1950′s as Golden Age? The manufacturing of instant public myth, replete with rosy recollections and the retrospective pleant time where there is an option to subscribe to nostalgia as public virtue… …The paranoiac fear of the Russians in the … Continue reading →