The Philosophy of Michael Mann
  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Known for restoring vitality and superior craftsmanship to the crime thriller, 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 (1979), the cult favorite The Keep (1983), the American epic The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and the Academy Award-nominated The Insider (1999) as well as his most recent works—Ali (2001), Miami Vice (2006), and Public Enemies (2009).

The Philosophy of Michael Mann provides an up-to-date and 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Michael Mann
  5. Michael Mann and Nonplace
  6. "Awakened to Chaos"
  7. Existential Mann
  8. "Do You See?"
  9. Mann and Ubermensch
  10. "Blood in the Moonlight"
  11. Style, Meaning, and Myth in Public Enemies
  12. Interiorization in Public Enemies
  13. Mannerism
  14. The Ethics of Contracts, Conscience, and Courage in The Insider
  15. The Commodification of Justice
  16. Subjectivity and the Ethics of Duty in Michael Mann's Cinema
  17. Natural Man, Natural Rights, and Eros
  18. Emotion, Truth, and Space in Heat
  19. Mann's Biopics and the Methodology of Philosophy
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Contributors
  22. Index