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The Cinema of Michael Mann
Author(s): Steven Rybin (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 Aug. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 242 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739120425
- ISBN-13: 9780739120422
Book Description
Few other contemporary Hollywood filmmakers fit the category of genre stylist as well as Michael Mann, the director of such films as Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Manhunter, Thief, and Miami Vice. Manns film style marks him as a director who chooses the iconographic backdrop of a genre as a canvas upon which he and his collaborators can craft a unique cinematic vision. The Cinema of Michael Mann traces the innovative and under-explored stylistic contours of Manns work, the directors inflection upon and innovation within preexisting genre frameworks, and the relationship of both style and genre to issues of authorship and film criticism. Steven Rybins critical study of Manns cinema, and the importance of the filmmakers themes to our contemporary world, is valuable for both film scholars and cinephiles alike.
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Review
In this book, Steven Rybin takes the reader on a remarkable tour of the world of Michael Mann, a place replete with epic cityscapes, digitally composited dreamscapes, and domestic interiors intermittently inhabited by characters cut off from collective identity and meaning. Interrelating visual design and soundtrack with theme and mood, Rybin’s work is the perfect guide to the consummately stylized postmodernist vision of Mann’s films. From Rybin’s analysis of influences such as Vertov and Kubrick, to his championing of The Insider, to his probing study of Miami Vice as movie, he demonstrates a command of the auteur that makes this book a pleasure to read.
About the Author
Steven Rybin teaches in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University.
