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Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann's Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand. --Peter Bogdanovich

Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann's Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand. --Peter Bogdanovich

�Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann�s Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand.� �Peter Bogdanovich �This study is more than welcome, given the emphasis always placed on the director�s Westerns, and shows just how inspired and scrupulous a director Mann often was prior to making Winchester �73, The Man from Laramie and Man of the West. The author provides essential contextual and background material on the often independent small studios that produced the films in question: the careful and systematic use of archival material enables him to determine with a considerable degree of accuracy and conviction the nature of the contributions to each film by the director and his collaborators, in particular director of photography John Alton. The articulation of the textual and the extra-textual makes The Crime Films of Anthony Mann a most valuable work for teachers and students alike, as well as for the informed general reader.� �Reynold Humphries, former professor of film studies at the University of Lille, France -Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann's Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand.- --Peter Bogdanovich -This study is more than welcome, given the emphasis always placed on the director's Westerns, and shows just how inspired and scrupulous a director Mann often was prior to making Winchester '73, The Man from Laramie and Man of the West. The author provides essential contextual and background material on the often independent small studios that produced the films in question: the careful and systematic use of archival material enables him to determine with a considerable degree of accuracy and conviction the nature of the contributions to each film by the director and his collaborators, in particular director of photography John Alton. The articulation of the textual and the extra-textual makes The Crime Films of Anthony Mann a most valuable work for teachers and students alike, as well as for the informed general reader.- --Reynold Humphries, former professor of film studies at the University of Lille, France Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann's Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand. --Peter Bogdanovich This study is more than welcome, given the emphasis always placed on the director's Westerns, and shows just how inspired and scrupulous a director Mann often was prior to making Winchester '73, The Man from Laramie and Man of the West. The author provides essential contextual and background material on the often independent small studios that produced the films in question: the careful and systematic use of archival material enables him to determine with a considerable degree of accuracy and conviction the nature of the contributions to each film by the director and his collaborators, in particular director of photography John Alton. The articulation of the textual and the extra-textual makes The Crime Films of Anthony Mann a most valuable work for teachers and students alike, as well as for the informed general reader. --Reynold Humphries, former professor of film studies at the University of Lille, France Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann s Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand. Peter Bogdanovich This study is more than welcome, given the emphasis always placed on the director s Westerns, and shows just how inspired and scrupulous a director Mann often was prior to making Winchester 73, The Man from Laramie and Man of the West. The author provides essential contextual and background material on the often independent small studios that produced the films in question: the careful and systematic use of archival material enables him to determine with a considerable degree of accuracy and conviction the nature of the contributions to each film by the director and his collaborators, in particular director of photography John Alton. The articulation of the textual and the extra-textual makes The Crime Films of Anthony Mann a most valuable work for teachers and students alike, as well as for the informed general reader. Reynold Humphries, former professor of film studies at the University of Lille, France Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann s Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand. Peter Bogdanovich This study is more than welcome, given the emphasis always placed on the director s Westerns, and shows just how inspired and scrupulous a director Mann often was prior to making Winchester 73, The Man from Laramie and Man of the West. The author provides essential contextual and background material on the often independent small studios that produced the films in question: the careful and systematic use of archival material enables him to determine with a considerable degree of accuracy and conviction the nature of the contributions to each film by the director and his collaborators, in particular director of photography John Alton. The articulation of the textual and the extra-textual makes The Crime Films of Anthony Mann a most valuable work for teachers and students alike, as well as for the informed general reader. Reynold Humphries, former professor of film studies at the University of Lille, France Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann's Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand. --Peter Bogdanovich This study is more than welcome, given the emphasis always placed on the director's Westerns, and shows just how inspired and scrupulous a director Mann often was prior to making Winchester '73, The Man from Laramie and Man of the West. The author provides essential contextual and background material on the often independent small studios that produced the films in question: the careful and systematic use of archival material enables him to determine with a considerable degree of accuracy and conviction the nature of the contributions to each film by the director and his collaborators, in particular director of photography John Alton. The articulation of the textual and the extra-textual makes The Crime Films of Anthony Mann a most valuable work for teachers and students alike, as well as for the informed general reader. --Reynold Humphries, former professor of film studies at the University of Lille, France Among devoted cinephiles, Anthony Mann's Westerns have been enshrined near the top achievements in that beloved genre, especially the handful he made with James Stewart, but little has been written about the excellent series of crime pictures he directed before those. That oversight has now been corrected with this meticulously researched and lovingly detailed new book by Max Alvarez, a triumph of film scholarship, most readable, reliable in its opinions, and touching in its devotion to the subject at hand. --Peter Bogdanovich This study is more than welcome, given the emphasis always placed on the director's Westerns, and shows just how inspired and scrupulous a director Mann often was prior to making Winchester '73, The Man from Laramie, and Man of the West. The author provides essential contextual and background material on the often independent small studios that produced the films in question: the careful and systematic use of archival material enables him to determine with a considerable degree of accuracy and conviction the nature of the contributions to each film by the director and his collaborators, in particular director of photography John Alton. The articulation of the textual and the extra-textual makes The Crime Films of Anthony Mann a most valuable work for teachers and students alike, as well as for the informed general reader. --Reynold Humphries, former professor of film studies at the University of Lille, France

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Max Alvarez is a film historian and public speaker on world cinema. He has developed presentation partnerships with such organizations as the Smithsonian Institution and is the former film programmer for National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. His essay on Thornton Wilder's Shadow of a Doubt screenplay appears in the book Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives from Northwestern University Press. He has also written for Film History: An International Journal and Chicago Tribune. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley have both showcased Alvarez's groundbreaking scholarship on Anthony Mann as part of their public programs focusing on the director's work. Find him at www.maxjalvarez.com.

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