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The Cinema of Michael Mann: Vice and Vindication
Jonathan Rayner
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Paperback. Series: Directors' Cuts. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Directors' Cuts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231167291
SKU
V9780231167291
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About Jonathan Rayner
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).
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