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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Mann's Style: The Jericho Mile, LA 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
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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Mann's Style: The Jericho Mile, LA 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
In this detailed portrait Rayner has constructed a comprehensive analysis that places Michael Mann's work alongside the important auteurs of the classical period. He makes a convincing case that Mann represents not so much a break with genre bending masters such as Hawks and Ford but a continuity. This is an important addition to the scholarship on Mann and to the work on contemporary American film and television studies. -- Dr. Michael Hammond, Senior Lecturer, Film Studies, University of Southampton This volume doesn't simply narrate the story of Mann's films, it provides us with a thoroughly grounded exploration, an informed and passionate study that is as revealing as it is engaging. This is a very impressive critical examination. -- Graeme Harper, Oakland University
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Mann's Style: The Jericho Mile, LA 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
Jonathan Rayner is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. His publications include The Films of Peter Weir (1998), Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000), The Naval War Film (2007), and Cinema and Landscape (coedited with Graeme Harper, 2010).
...thoughtful, well-written, timely, and immaculately researched... Choice
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