[PDF] Michael Mann Cinema And Television eBook

Author : Steven Sanders
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0748693556

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This reader is the first to bring together a selection of Mann's own interviews where he reflects on his film and television productions. The sixteen interviews provide historical context, interpretation and evaluation of the auteur's work. They encompass his entire career as a feature filmmaker and television producer/director as he and others reflect on his themes, working methods, artistic development and career achievements. The book aims to open up Mann's body of work, making it available for comparison with the work of his contemporaries, and to provide fresh insights into his film and television work. A substantive introductory essay, chronology and filmography provide additional bases for understanding the interviews, essays and work of this major filmmaker.

Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2013-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231167288

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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.

Author : Steven Rybin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810890844

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Michael Mann first made his mark as a writer for such television programs as Starsky and Hutch, Police Story, and Vegas. In 1981 he made his feature film directing debut with the James Caan thriller Thief, and in the 1980s he served as a writer and executive producer for the groundbreaking programs Miami Vice and Crime Story. Though he has delved into other genres, Mann’s career as a writer, producer, and director has consistently focused on criminal activity, from small-time hoods and professional thieves to corporate manipulators and serial killers. In Michael Mann: Crime Auteur, Steven Rybin looks at the television programs and films that Mann has stamped with his personal signature. This book closely examines the themes and techniques used in films such as Manhunter, Heat, The Insider, and Collateral and connects these elements to his work on the non-genre films The Last of the Mohicans and Ali. A revised and significantly expanded edition of The Cinema of Michael Mann (2007), this book includes new chapters on Public Enemies and the big screen version of Miami Vice, as well as Mann’s work on the shows Crime Story and Luck. Covering Mann’s entire career, this book will be of interest to fans of the writer/director’s body of work as well as to scholars of both film and television.

Author : Steven Rybin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780739120439

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Examines the work of Michael Mann, Hollywood director through a critical study of his film style and its relationship to genre, film criticism, auteurism, and historical context. This book covers Mann's filmography, from his beginning in television to his film adaptation of the television series "Miami Vice".

Author : Vincent Malausa
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780714869285

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It took Michael Mann (b. 1943), today a major figure in contemporary American cinema, many years to establish himself: his experience as a flamboyant television producer in the 1980s – notably on the series Miami Vice – overshadowed his early work as a filmmaker. In 1991 Mann exploded into the mainstream with the success of The Last of the Mohicans. Since then his work has focused on the crime movie, with Heat in 1995, Collateral in 2004 and Public Enemies in 2009.

Author : Steven M. Sanders
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813144728

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A collection of essays exploring the philosophical themes and aesthetic vision behind blockbuster film including The Insider, Public Enemies,and more. Known for his finely crafted crime thrillers, American filmmaker Michael Mann has long been regarded as a talented triple threat capable of moving effortlessly between television and feature films as a writer, director, and executive producer. His unique visual sense and thematic approach are evident in the Emmy Award-winning The Jericho Mile, the cult favorite The Keep, the American epic The Last of the Mohicans, and the Academy Award-nominated The Insider, as well as more recent works such as Ali, Miami Vice, and Public Enemies. The Philosophy of Michael Mann provides a comprehensive account of the work of this highly accomplished filmmaker, exploring the director's recognizable visual style and the various on-screen and philosophical elements he has tested in his thirty-five-year career. 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.

Author : Mark E. Wildermuth
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786482214

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Director and screenwriter Michael Mann is the creative force behind such movies as Last of the Mohicans and Ali. Markedly reticent, Mann prefers that his personal background remain an enigma, but his disparate films contain clear and consistent messages. One of Mann's focuses is on the Information Age. He addresses the nature of modern communication, its use to manipulate and coerce, and the resultant subjugation of truth. The perils inherent in modern technology and communication stand in stark contrast to the power of symbolic and oral exchange, the trusted medium of Mann's protagonists. This critical exploration of the films of Michael Mann examines his recurring focus on the nature of modern communication and information and their effect on the individual and society. Mann's films highlight the struggle to maintain a connection to reality in a world where information is a commodity manipulated and abused by forces that exert increasing control over its content and dissemination. Each chapter examines one of Mann's films--including Manhunter, The Keep, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider and Ali--in which the protagonist longs for a sense of human connection but is pitted against forces that devalue and destroy individuality. Photographs illustrate specific moments from the films. A bibliography and an index are included.

Author : Michael Mann
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008222762

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NOW A NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat – an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film.

Author : Steven Sanders
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 9781474406451

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This is the first book to bring together a selection of interviews with the acclaimed American film director Michael Mann, in which he reflects on his film and television productions. The 16 interviews it contains provide historical context, interpretation and evaluation of the auteur's work. The book encompasses his entire career as a director of feature films and as a television producer/director. It features Mann and others reflecting on his themes, working methods, artistic development and career achievements.

Author : Vincent M. Gaine
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230301054

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Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the problems and opportunities of living according to this philosophy.