The Cinema of Michael Mann
Few other contemporary Hollywood filmmakers fit the category of 'genre stylist' as well as Michael Mann, the director of such films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Manhunter, Thief, and Miami Vice. Mann's film style marks him as a director who chooses the iconographic backdrop of a genre as a canvas upon which he and his collaborators can craft a unique cinematic vision. The Cinema of Michael Mann traces the innovative and under-explored stylistic contours of Mann's work, the director's inflection upon and innovation within preexisting genre frameworks, and the relationship of both style and genre to issues of authorship and film criticism. Steven Rybin's critical study of Mann's cinema, and the importance of the filmmaker's themes to our contemporary world, is valuable for both film scholars and cinephiles alike.
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The Cinema of Michael Mann
Few other contemporary Hollywood filmmakers fit the category of 'genre stylist' as well as Michael Mann, the director of such films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Manhunter, Thief, and Miami Vice. Mann's film style marks him as a director who chooses the iconographic backdrop of a genre as a canvas upon which he and his collaborators can craft a unique cinematic vision. The Cinema of Michael Mann traces the innovative and under-explored stylistic contours of Mann's work, the director's inflection upon and innovation within preexisting genre frameworks, and the relationship of both style and genre to issues of authorship and film criticism. Steven Rybin's critical study of Mann's cinema, and the importance of the filmmaker's themes to our contemporary world, is valuable for both film scholars and cinephiles alike.
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The Cinema of Michael Mann

The Cinema of Michael Mann

by Steven Rybin
The Cinema of Michael Mann

The Cinema of Michael Mann

by Steven Rybin

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Few other contemporary Hollywood filmmakers fit the category of 'genre stylist' as well as Michael Mann, the director of such films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Manhunter, Thief, and Miami Vice. Mann's film style marks him as a director who chooses the iconographic backdrop of a genre as a canvas upon which he and his collaborators can craft a unique cinematic vision. The Cinema of Michael Mann traces the innovative and under-explored stylistic contours of Mann's work, the director's inflection upon and innovation within preexisting genre frameworks, and the relationship of both style and genre to issues of authorship and film criticism. Steven Rybin's critical study of Mann's cinema, and the importance of the filmmaker's themes to our contemporary world, is valuable for both film scholars and cinephiles alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739120422
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/29/2007
Series: Genre Film Auteurs
Pages: 242
Product dimensions: 6.38(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Steven Rybin teaches in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter One: Beginnings in Television andThe Jericho Mile
Chapter 3 Chapter Two:Thief
Chapter 4 Chapter Three:The Keep
Chapter 5 Chapter Four:Manhunter
Chapter 6 Chapter Five:The Last of the Mohicans
Chapter 7 Chapter Six: Heat
Chapter 8 Chapter Seven:The Insider
Chapter 9 Chapter Eight:Ali
Chapter 10 Chapter Nine:Collateral
Chapter 11 Conclusion: Michael Mann andMiami Vice in the Shadow of New Hollywood
Chapter 12 Michael Mann Filmography
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