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.
This book covers Mann's filmography, from his beginning in television to his film adaptation of the television series "Miami Vice".
Finally, though, the song's jam reaches its conclusion, and the powerful crescendo of“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” becomes associated with Graham as the song's climax scores a shot in which Graham slowly wakes up from Dollarhyde's attack.
Instead of going on the defensive and playing into the Sheik's aggressive stance with its seemingly unquestionable warrant, Bergman brings up the issue of face. He eliminates the seemingly radical stance of Hesbolah by announcing a ...
The essays in this wide-ranging book will appeal to fans of the revolutionary filmmaker and to philosophical scholars interested in the themes and conflicts that drive his movies.
Graham is a grown-up. He's perfectly aware that monsters like Dollarhyde didn't come here from Mars; we're the ones that made them, society made them. Battering an infant or young child is all that's needed to create a monster.
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Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first crime novel – an explosive return to...
This book covers not only his films--from 1979's The Jericho Mile to 2015's Blackhat--but also the scope of intellectual interests they exemplify, mining the commonalities, themes, and traits that may suggest the presence of an auteur.
This book covers all of Mann's major films, with extensive critical commentaries, while comparing and contrasting the styles, the characters and the themes.
For Nick James, the pleasures and virtues of Heat are mixed and complex. Its precise compositions and minimalist style are entangled with a particular kind of extravagant bombast.