Overview

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.

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Author:   Steven Rybin
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
Imprint:   Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9780810890831

ISBN 10:   0810890836
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   04 April 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Steven Rybin has written an incisive, indispensable account of Michael Mann's cinema of ideas and visuals in what promises to be the definitive study of this major film and television auteur for years to come. -- Steven Sanders, emeritus professor, department of philosophy, Bridgewater State University

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Steven Rybin is assistant professor of film at Georgia Gwinnett College. He is the author of The Cinema of Michael Mann (2007) and Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film (2011).

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