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The Cinema of Michael Mann : Vice and Vindication / Jonathan Rayner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Directors' CutsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 20Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231167291
  • 9780231850490
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430233092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.M3645 R39 2013
  • PN1998.3.M338835 R3 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Mann's Style: The Jericho Mile, L.A. Takedown, Miami Vice -- 2. Pursuing the Professional: Thief, Heat, Collateral -- 3. Endangering the Domestic: Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider -- 4. Adventures in Genre: The Keep, Ali, Public Enemies -- 5. Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Michael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, articulated through a conspicuous and recognizable visual style and yet integrated within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Since his beginnings as a screenwriter in the 1970s, Mann has become a key figure within contemporary American popular culture as writer, director, and producer for film and television. This volume offers a detailed study of Mann's feature films, from The Jericho Mile (1979) to Public Enemies (2009), with consideration also being given to parallels in the production, style, and characterization in his television work. It explores Mann's relationship with classical genres, his thematic concentration on issues of morality and masculinity, his film adaptations from literature, and the development and significance of his trademark visual style within modern American cinema.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Mann's Style: The Jericho Mile, L.A. Takedown, Miami Vice -- 2. Pursuing the Professional: Thief, Heat, Collateral -- 3. Endangering the Domestic: Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider -- 4. Adventures in Genre: The Keep, Ali, Public Enemies -- 5. Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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Michael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, articulated through a conspicuous and recognizable visual style and yet integrated within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Since his beginnings as a screenwriter in the 1970s, Mann has become a key figure within contemporary American popular culture as writer, director, and producer for film and television. This volume offers a detailed study of Mann's feature films, from The Jericho Mile (1979) to Public Enemies (2009), with consideration also being given to parallels in the production, style, and characterization in his television work. It explores Mann's relationship with classical genres, his thematic concentration on issues of morality and masculinity, his film adaptations from literature, and the development and significance of his trademark visual style within modern American cinema.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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