In this podcast we are tying into our June conversations on Robert Altman with a debate about his biggest commercial success, the 1970 anti-war satire M*A*S*H. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the many ways in which Altman attempted to redefine and deconstruct the perennial genre of a war movie, how the audiences chose to respond to this over Catch-22 and how this movie spoke to a generation sick and tired of the Vietnam War... despite the fact the movie is set in Korea. We also talk about the busy nature of an Altman set, the conflicting reports on what it must have been like to work for him as an actor and a distinct possibility that a lot of the humour the movie is packed with would go on to enable movies like Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds.
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